EP0424892B1 - Connecteur électrique scellé - Google Patents
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- EP0424892B1 EP0424892B1 EP90120342A EP90120342A EP0424892B1 EP 0424892 B1 EP0424892 B1 EP 0424892B1 EP 90120342 A EP90120342 A EP 90120342A EP 90120342 A EP90120342 A EP 90120342A EP 0424892 B1 EP0424892 B1 EP 0424892B1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
- H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
- H01R13/46—Bases; Cases
- H01R13/52—Dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof, or flameproof cases
- H01R13/5205—Sealing means between cable and housing, e.g. grommet
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- the subject invention relates to an improved electrical connector housing and more particularly to an improved sealing feature for the sealing of electrical terminals within their housing.
- the electrical connectors contain sealing grommets which are slid over the ends of insulated conductors, and are then slid forwardly into an aperture at the rear of the connector housing.
- the seals contain peripheral ribs around the sealing grommet, which when inserted into the apertures, are compressed which seals the aperture.
- EP-A-0 292 118 discloses a seal placed over a plurality of electrical wires and provided at the rear sealing face of the electrical connector. The seal is retractable from the connector to expose portions of the terminals of the connector for probing while the system, to which the electrical connector is connected, is operating. A collar provided at the outward end of the seal is seated within a seal cap which is latched to the connector housing and can be removed from the housing together with the seal. In the latched position of the seal cap, only a protruding portion of the seal provided with peripherally ribs is in sealing engagement with the connector housing whereas the collar remains the seal cap.
- the object of the invention then is to provide for an electrical connector having an improved sealing to prevent such ingress of moisture.
- the effect of receiving the collar in the terminal receiving passageway is that, if the wire is pulled at an angle relative to its axial length, the collar in only compressed which prevents the ribs from pulling away from the terminal receiving passageway so that no water will be pumped into the interior of the terminal receiving passageway.
- the connector is shown as including a shell member 400 where a pin insert 450 is latchably retained therein.
- the pin insert 450 generally comprises a body portion 452 and a flexible secondary lock portion 490.
- the housing portion 452 comprises a front mating face 454 and a rear face 456, with a plurality of terminal receiving passageways 458, 460 and 462 ( Figure 7) extending therebetween.
- the terminal passageway 458 will be described in detail.
- the internal passageway 458 comprises a square aperture portion 458b which is in communication with a cylindrical bore portion 458a through a frusto-conical surface 458d.
- the aperture portion 458c is in communication with the inner terminal passageway 458b.
- alignment members 468 and 470 extend from the rear face 456 of the housing portion 452.
- the alignment member 468 includes an upper semi-cylindrical portion 468a, a lower semi-cylindrical portion 468b, a lower vertical planar surface 468c, and an upper horizontal planar surface 468d.
- the alignment member 470 is a virtue mirror image of the alignment member 468 and therefore will not be described in detail. It should be noted here that the profiles of the semi-cylindrical surfaces 468a, 468b; 470a, 470b are profiled to overlap a pillar portion of the shell member 400.
- the pin housing 450 includes in the upper surface 474, a cross-shaped slot comprising an axial slot 476 and a transverse slot 480, as shown in Figure 4.
- a vertical passageway 478 is continuous with the vertical slot 476 and also communicates with the lower passageway 458b.
- the transverse slot 480 communicates with the upper passageways 460 and 462.
- the front face 454 of the housing portion 452 further includes two apertures 490 and 491 which provide for latching purposes and will be described in greater detail herein.
- the pin housing member 450 also includes a hinged rotatable secondary lock portion 490 which is integrally molded to the housing portion 452 via a web 492 of plastic material.
- the secondary lock portion 490 comprises a plate member 494 having an axial bar 500 extending upwardly with a vertical peg portion 502 and a transverse bar portion 504, all integral with the plate portion 494.
- a vertical upstanding latching leg 506 is also included having a latching peg 508. As shown in Figures 4 and 7 two alignment pegs 510 and 512 also upstand from the upper surface of the plate portion 494.
- the socket housing 520 generally includes a mating end 522 and a cable receiving end 524.
- the socket housing 520 includes a plurality of socket receiving passageways 526, 528 and 530 which extend from a rear face 525 forwardly to an inner surface 534.
- Each of the terminal receiving passageways such as 526 generally includes a pin receiving aperture 526b, a square shaped aperture 526a and a sealing bore surface 526c.
- the mating end 522 includes an aperture 532 defined by the semi-circular inner surface 532a, the horizontal surfaces 532b, 532c and 532f; and vertical surfaces 532d and 532e. Each of these surfaces extends from the front end 522 to a rear face 534. It should be noted that these inner surfaces 532a-532f, are cooperatively profiled to receive the mating end of the pin socket 450 as shown in Figure 6.
- a T-shaped slot 536 is in laterally centered relative to the lower terminal receiving passageway 526 and generally includes an axial slot 538 and a transverse slot 542.
- a vertical slot 544 extends downwardly from the axial slot 538 and communicates with the forward bore 526 of the terminal passageway.
- the transverse slot 542 communicates with the passageways 528 and 530.
- a hinged secondary lock 590 is integrally molded to the socket housing via a integral web 592.
- the secondary lock 590 includes a circular plate portion 594 which is profiled to overlay the semi-circular opening 539 at the top of the socket housing.
- the secondary lock 590 also includes an axial bar 600 from which extends a vertical peg section 602.
- a transverse bar 604 also extends from the circular plate portion 594.
- the axial plate portion 600 When in the locked position, the axial plate portion 600 is positioned in the axial slot 538, the transverse bar 604 is positioned in the transverse slot 542 with a section of the vertical peg extending into the terminal receiving cavities and the vertical peg 602 is positioned in the vertical slot 544 with a portion of the vertical peg extending into the terminal passageway 526.
- the terminal receiving passageway 528 is shown in phantom with the transverse bar section 604 extending into the terminal passageway 528.
- three latch arms 531 extend from the rear of the socket housing 520 and as shown in Figure 8 include ramped surfaces 531a and a latching arm 531b.
- the pin terminal used in the pin housing is shown as a completed cable assembly 620 comprising a pin terminal 622, a grommet seal section 624 and a cable 626.
- the pin terminal generally comprises a forward pin section 622a, a lance section 622b which is stamped from and extends above a generally box shaped section 622f.
- a vertical plate portion 622e upstands above the top surface of the box shaped section 622f as shown in Figure 13.
- the pin terminal 622 also comprises a crimp section 622c which terminates the individual conductor 626a of the electrical cable 626 thereto.
- the pin terminal 622 also includes a strain relief section 622d which is crimped around a reduced diameter section 624c of the grommet 624 and behind a forward portion 624d of the grommet 624.
- the socket cable assemblies 640 are shown as generally including a socket terminal 642, a wire sealing grommet 624 and an electrical conductor 626. It should be noted that the grommets and the socket assembly 640 are identical to the grommets in the pin terminal assemblies 620.
- the socket terminals 642 generally comprise opposed contacts 642a, a retention lance 642b, and a crimp section 642c which is electrically connected to the conductor 626a of the cable 626.
- the strain relief section 642d of the terminal 642 is wrapped around the reduced diameter section 624c of the grommet 624 directly behind the forward rib 624d of the grommet 624.
- the socket terminal 642 also comprises a vertical plate section 642e which upstands vertically higher than the box shaped section 642f.
- the pin housing 450 is assembled by starting with the housing 450 as shown in Figure 4 with the secondary lock member 490 in an unlatched position.
- the lock member 490 is now rotated such that the vertical plate 500 is inserted into the axial slot 476 and the latch arm 506 is brought into registry with the first aperture 490 such that the locking peg 508 on the latch are 506 is situated in the first or upper aperture 490.
- Figure 1 shows the pin housing 450 in this position and, when in this position, the vertical peg 502 and the transverse bar section 504 do not extend into the terminal receiving passageways, but rather are slightly above the passageway.
- the pin housing 450 may now be placed in the front of the shell member 400 such that the space between the walls 470d and 472a ( Figure 7) are aligned with the alignment member 428, and that the space between the two surfaces 472b and 468d are aligned with the horizontal alignment member 426. This will also align the alignment member 406 with the space between the two surfaces 468c and 470c. It should be noted that when in place, surfaces of the shell member 400 actually complete the pin terminal passageways 460, 462 and 458, ( Figure 7) respectively. Said differently, the terminal receiving passageways, for example, terminal passageway 458, is partially cylindrical from the position 458h to the rear wall 456 ( Figure 4).
- an alignment member of the shell member 400 also includes a latching shoulder which will latch behind the surface 466 ( Figure 4) to lock the pin housing in place as shown in Figure 1.
- the latching shoulder is an extension of the bore 432, the outer periphery of the shell member 400 is uninhibited with further apertures defined by with drawing mold dies to provide latching surfaces.
- a latching surface has to be formed on an interior of a housing, and when the latching surface is rearwardly facing, a mold die must be pulled from the rear to form that rearwardly facing latch surface.
- the bore has to be formed anyway, so that the latching structure which retains the shell and the pin housing together is simply an extension of the bore which is already to be molded. This is quite advantageous when the connector assembly is to be sealed, because no other apertures need to be filled or sealed in any other manner.
- the pin terminal assemblies 620 can be inserted into the three rear apertures 432, 434 and 436.
- the pin section 622a will position the retention lance 622b ( Figure 13) against the latching shoulder 458f ( Figure 4) to form the primary retention feature for the pin terminals.
- a narrow tool such as a thin bladed tool can be inserted into the bore 402 of the shell member to move the secondary lock into its locked position, that position being shown in Figure 5 where the locking peg 508 now resides in the second or lower aperture for 491.
- the socket terminals 642 are inserted into their respective passageways 526, 528 and 530 in the socket housing 520 to a position where the end retention lances 642b is located within the aperture 540 ( Figure 9).
- the secondary retention member 590 can now be brought into latched position where the axial bar 600 will reside in the axial slot 638 such that the vertical peg 602 and the transverse bar extend into the respective passageways 544 and 542 respectively when in this position the vertical peg 602 will reside in the terminal receiving passageway 526a and the transverse bar 604 will extend into the terminal receiving passageways 528 and 530 and in abutting relation with the sheared edge 642g ( Figure 16) of the socket terminal 642.
- the socket housing assembly is insertable into the shell so that the pins and socket members are matable.
- the latching members 531b ( Figure 8) will reside in T-slots of the shell member.
- the internal electrical components are entirely sealed from exterior moisture or contaminants.
- This seal is provided by the discrete seals 624 residing in compression in the respective bores 432, 434 and 436 of the shell housing and in bores 526, 528 and 530 in the socket housing. It is also sealed by the fact that an O-ring 612 is included in an 0-ring groove 610 ( Figure 9) such that when the socket housing is inserted into the shell member 400 the O-ring is in compression against the inner surface 402 of the shell housing.
- the grommet 624 includes a forward rib 624d, a reduced diameter portion 624c, sealing ribs 624a, and an extended collar portion 624b.
- the extended collar portion 624b of the grommet is adjacent to the rear face 429 or 525, respectively.
- Figure 17 which is only a diagrammatical view, if the wire is pulled at an angle relative to the axial length, the collar only is compressed which prevents the ingress of water into the cavity. In other words, the collar is compressed which prevents the ribs from pulling away from the cavity bore. If the ribs are pulled away from the cavity bore, water will enter into the cavity and be pumped into the interior of the cavity.
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Claims (1)
- Connecteur électrique ayant un boîtier isolant (400, 450, 520) comprenant au moins un passage (432, 458, 526) de réception d'une borne destiné à la réception d'une borne électrique (622, 642) terminant un fil isolé (626), le connecteur comportant en outre un manchon (624) d'étanchéité(a) présentant un trou traversant qui permet au manchon (624) d'être mis en place en étant glissé sur ledit fil (626) dont l'étanchéité doit être assurée,(b) ayant en outre plusieurs nervures périphériques espacées (624a) profilées pour être reçues en étant comprimées dans la partie arrière du passage (432, 458, 526) de réception de borne,(c) et contenant, à son extrémité extérieure, une bague allongée (624b),caractérisé en ce que
la bague (624b) est conçue pour réaliser un engagement avec, et être reçue dans, le passage (432, 458, 526) de réception de borne, et est positionnée dans une section du passage (432, 458, 526) de réception de borne qui est adjacente à la face arrière du boîtier (400, 450, 520) du connecteur, grâce à quoi, si le fil (626) est tiré en formant un angle avec la longueur axiale, la bague (624b), et non les nervures (624a), est comprimée, empêchant l'entrée d'eau au-delà de la première nervure (624a).
Applications Claiming Priority (4)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB898923859A GB8923859D0 (en) | 1989-10-24 | 1989-10-24 | Sealed electrical connector |
GB898923856A GB8923856D0 (en) | 1989-10-24 | 1989-10-24 | Improved housing for sealed electrical connector |
GB8923859 | 1989-10-24 | ||
GB8923856 | 1989-10-24 |
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EP0424892A1 EP0424892A1 (fr) | 1991-05-02 |
EP0424892B1 true EP0424892B1 (fr) | 1995-06-14 |
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EP90120342A Expired - Lifetime EP0424892B1 (fr) | 1989-10-24 | 1990-10-23 | Connecteur électrique scellé |
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JP2568578Y2 (ja) * | 1992-01-31 | 1998-04-15 | 住友電装株式会社 | 防水コネクタ用ゴム部品 |
GB9212732D0 (en) * | 1992-06-16 | 1992-07-29 | Amp Gmbh | Sealed electrical connector and method of making the same |
US5386356A (en) * | 1993-04-12 | 1995-01-31 | Davis, Jr.; Zell | Weatherproof electric lighting fixture |
JP2785714B2 (ja) * | 1994-09-08 | 1998-08-13 | 住友電装株式会社 | シール用ゴム栓の固定構造 |
Citations (1)
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EP0292118A1 (fr) * | 1987-05-22 | 1988-11-23 | The Whitaker Corporation | Connecteur scellé sondable combiné avec une sonde externe |
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JPS64273U (fr) * | 1987-06-22 | 1989-01-05 | ||
US4810205A (en) * | 1987-10-13 | 1989-03-07 | United Technologies Automotive, Inc. | Electrical connector with secondary wedge lock |
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- 1990-10-23 EP EP90120342A patent/EP0424892B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1990-10-23 DE DE1990620097 patent/DE69020097T2/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
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Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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EP0292118A1 (fr) * | 1987-05-22 | 1988-11-23 | The Whitaker Corporation | Connecteur scellé sondable combiné avec une sonde externe |
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DE69020097D1 (de) | 1995-07-20 |
DE69020097T2 (de) | 1995-09-28 |
EP0424892A1 (fr) | 1991-05-02 |
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