Patent ID: 11870179
Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  F | IPC F  H

Claim 13:
14. A method for assembling a connector, comprising:
providing a plurality of pins, each of the pins has a barb extending from an outer surface; and
forming a plurality of seals separate from one another from an elastically deformable material, the seals are each disposed on one of the pins at a largest outer diameter of the outer surface excluding the barb of the one of the pins, the seals are each retained on the one of the pins along a longitudinal direction of the one of the pins by an elastic force of the elastically deformable material acting on the one of the pins in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, each of the seals has a seal body with a protrusion extending from an inner surface of the seal body, the protrusion is elastically compressed between an outer surface of the one of the pins and the seal body, further comprising, after the forming step, inserting the pins with the seals disposed on the pins into a housing, the pins are retained in the housing and the seals are elastically compressed by a sealing portion of the housing as a result of the inserting step.