Patent ID: 8108968
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: H02G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A grommet assembly comprising: a retainer including a sleeve, the sleeve oriented extending axially along and centered about an axis; and a boot secured to the retainer, including a first series of pleats extending axially along and centered about the axis and aligned with the sleeve, each pleat decreasing in size as distance from the retainer increases, each pleat including a crest and a valley, an outer surface of said crests decreasing in distance from the axis as distance of the respective crest from the retainer increases, and an inner surface of said valleys decreasing in distance from the axis as distance of the respective valley from the retainer increases, and a second series of pleats extending axially and centered about the axis and aligned with the sleeve and extending directly from the first series of pleats, each pleat of the second series having a substantially uniform size and spaced from a consecutive pleat of the second series by a distance that is less than a space between consecutive pleats of the first series, each pleat of the second series including a crest and a valley, an outer surface of said crests of the second series being a substantially uniform distance from the axis, and an inner surface of said valleys of the second series being a substantially uniform distance from the axis, the inner surface of the valleys of the second series of pleats being sized and shaped to slidably receive a translating material that is freely slidable inside the second series of pleats, the pleat of the first series that is adjacent to the pleat of the second series engaging and only supported by the adjacent pleat of the second series and the pleats of the first series.