Patent ID: 9543710
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A connector module comprising: a housing defined by a first shell and a second shed that mate at a seam, and form an interior chamber therebetween, the housing including a cable exit region extending along a cable axis between the interior chamber and a cable opening of the housing, the cable exit region including a curved inner surface that defines a passage from the cable opening to the interior chamber, the passage having an elliptical cross-section along a plane perpendicular to the cable axis; and and a gasket within the passage of the cable exit region, the gasket including a conductive material such that the gasket is electrically conductive, the gasket extending along the cable axis between a front and a rear, an outer perimeter of the gasket in an uncompressed state having a non-elliptical cross-section along the plane perpendicular to the cable axis, the gasket having an outer side engaging the curved inner surface of the cable exit region and an inner side configured to engage at least one cable received within the cable exit region; wherein the gasket has a compressive layer that is surrounded by a conductive layer, the conductive layer being composed of the conductive material of the gasket, the conductive layer having a tubular shape and extending between first and second ends, the conductive layer defining the inner side and the outer side of the gasket; wherein, as the first and second shells are mated, the gasket is sandwiched in a compressed state between the at least one cable and the cable exit region, the outer side of the gasket in the compressed state configured to at least partially conform to the curved inner surface of the cable exit region to at least partially seal the passage between the at least one cable and the cable exit region.