Patent ID: 7201609
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector, comprising: a housing made of synthetic resin and having an outer peripheral surface, terminal fittings accommodated in the housing and electric wires fixed respectively to the terminal fittings and extended outside from a rear surface of the housing; a tubular rubber boot mounted on the housing, the rubber boot covering the outer peripheral surface of the housing and the rear surface thereof, the electric wires being penetrated through the rubber boot, the tubular rubber boot having a sealing portion with an inner peripheral surface that elastically contacts the outer peripheral surface of said housing, the sealing portion having inner and outer surfaces, a main lip formed on the inner peripheral surface of the sealing portion and elastically contacting said outer peripheral surface of said housing, and an auxiliary lip formed on the outer peripheral surface of the sealing portion at a position substantially opposite to the main lip; and a cover formed from a material that has a higher rigidity than said rubber boot, the cover being mounted on the rubber boot and covering the sealing portion of the rubber boot so that the auxiliary lip formed on the outer peripheral surface of the sealing portion elastically contacts an inner peripheral surface of said cover and so that sealing portion of the rubber boot is sandwiched between said cover and said housing over an entire periphery of said sealing portion, whereby the connector is engageable with a mating connector so that a front surface of said housing confronts a front surface of a mating housing of the mating connector.