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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1999
Toshisada Murayama, Shizouka, JP;
Akira Maeda, Shizouka, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The waterproof connector comprises a connector housing 31 with a plurality of terminal storage chambers 33 formed therein, an inner wall surface 37 which is formed in the inside of the connector housing 31 and on which a plurality of terminal mounting insertion openings 39 respectively in communication with their associated terminal storage chambers 33 are opened, and a plate-shaped gel 45 held within the connector housing in parallel to the inner wall surface 37, while a plurality of terminals, which have been made to pass through the gel 45, are respectively inserted from their associated terminal mounting insertion openings 39 to be thereby mounted into their associated terminal storage chambers 33. In the waterproof connector, on the respective peripheral edges of the terminal mounting insertion openings 39 of the inner wall surface 37, there are formed gel escape spaces 43 into which part of the gel 45 is allowed to advance.