Patent ID: 7927138
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising: a connector housing having a plurality of case lances formed therein for respectively holding within said connector housing a plurality of connecting terminals having connecting portions, a plurality of terminal insertion openings each having a substantially elliptical cross sectional shape and being aligned on a rear wall of said connector housing such that longitudinal directions of the elliptical cross sectional shapes of the terminal insertion openings are arranged in at least one direction, and a plurality of terminal accommodating holes in said connector housing respectively communicating with said plurality of terminal insertion openings, wherein each of said case lances is projected inwardly into a respective one of said terminal accommodating holes formed within the connector housing and is adapted to engage with a rear edge of one of the connecting portions having a substantially quadrilateral cross sectional shape to retain a corresponding connecting terminal within the connector housing, wherein each of said connecting portions of the connecting terminals is formed to have a substantially rectangular cross sectional shape, wherein each of water proof portions of water proof sealing members provided on a respective one of electric wires which are clamped on rear portions of the respective connecting terminals is formed to have a substantially elliptical cross sectional shape whose longitudinal direction is aligned with a longitudinal axial direction of the connecting portion of the corresponding connecting terminal and is engaged with said corresponding connecting terminal, and wherein each of said connecting terminals is inserted into a respective one of said terminal accommodating holes such that the longitudinal axial direction of the connecting portion of the connecting terminal and the longitudinal direction of the corresponding elliptical water proof portion of the water proof sealing member are aligned with a longitudinal direction of the corresponding terminal insertion opening having the elliptical shape.