Patent ID: 6679730
Filing Date: 2004-01-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electrical connector assembly comprising front and rear bodies, said front body including a contact-holding portion with a plurality of contact-receiving passages and including a rear portion, said rear body having a rear portion forming a cable-receiving passageway and having a front portion connected to said front body, said electrical connector assembly including a plurality of contacts each mounted in one of said passages and having a rear portion, and a cable having a jacket and having a plurality of wires in said jacket, said jacket having a front portion stripped away to leave individual wire front portions, said wire front portions each being terminated to a rear portion of one of said contacts, and said jacketed cable extending rearwardly through and out of said rear body passageway, a quantity of potting material lying within said rear body passageway and molded around said wire front portions and contact rear ends and around said cable, wherein:said front and rear bodies having adjacent largely cylindrical surfaces, with a first of said cylindrical surfaces having a groove; an O-ring lying in said groove of said first cylindrical surface and being pressed against the other cylindrical surface to form a radial seal between them; a shell that has front and rear shell portions that respectively surround said front and rear bodies; said shell has an axis and said shell rear portion has a largely cylindrical shell outside surface; said shell is molded with at least one ridge that projects radially from said shell outside surface, said ridge lying at only one of two circumferentially opposite sides of said shell, and having a largely circumferential ridge rear portion; said ridge has opposite side portions that extend forwardly from opposite sides of said ridge rear portion, said ridge rear portion projecting radially outwardly further on average than said ridge side portions.