Patent ID: 9614305
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A connector, comprising: a terminal fitting including a wire connecting portion to be crimped to an end of a wire and configured to be inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber formed in a housing from behind; a sleeve to be mounted on a rear part of the terminal fitting and functioning to retain the terminal fitting by being engaged with each of the terminal fitting and a wall surface of the terminal accommodating chamber; and a heat shrinkable tube to be fitted on an outer periphery of the wire connecting portion of the terminal fitting while being accommodated in the sleeve and to be held in close contact with the outer periphery by being thermally shrunk, wherein the sleeve including a lift-up portion for holding the heat shrinkable tube in such a fitted state that a clearance is secured between the heat shrinkable tube and an upper surface of the wire connecting portion by lifting up the heat shrinkable tube before thermal shrinkage in a radial direction against the own weight of the heat shrinkable tube.