Patent ID: 9281606
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. A connector comprising: a terminal; a housing provided with a terminal receiving chamber for receiving the terminal; a rear holder attached to an end of the housing to prevent the terminal from falling out of the terminal receiving chamber; and a rubber plug pressed into the terminal receiving chamber, wherein the terminal is provided with an electric contact portion connected to a mating terminal, and a wire connecting portion connected to an electric wire, wherein the terminal receiving chamber is provided with: a first receiving portion receiving the wire connecting portion, an end of the electric wire connected to the wire connecting portion, and the rubber plug; a second receiving portion continued to the first receiving portion; and a step wall formed between the first receiving portion and the second receiving portion, wherein the wire connecting portion is provided with a flange portion projected from an outer peripheral wall of the wire connecting portion and allowed to abut on the step wall, wherein the rubber plug is composed of a ring-shaped packing attached to an outer periphery of the electric wire and keeping a space between an outer peripheral wall of the electric wire and an inner wall of the first receiving portion watertight, and a resin member, wherein the resin member is provided with a buried portion, a cylinder portion extended in a cylindrical shape from the buried portion made by insert molding, and a second flange portion at an end of the buried portion opposite the cylinder portion, wherein the buried portion includes a cylindrical main body axially offset from and radially inward of the cylinder portion, and defines an annular recess configured to receive the packing between the cylinder portion and the second flange portion, and wherein the cylindrical main body of the buried portion defines a plurality of through-holes.