Patent ID: 6863566

Claim:
A subassembly installable in a housing for establishing a flexible, fluid-tight connection between an interior and an exterior of the housing, the housing having a connector opening, said subassembly comprising: a supporting plate; a separate plug-in connector mounted on said supporting plate such that said plug-in connector protrudes through the connector opening in the housing when said plug-in connector is in an installed state on the housing, wherein a longitudinal axis of said plug-in connector is coaxial with an axis of the connector opening in the housing, and substantially perpendicular to a plane of said supporting plate, and a base section of said plug-in connector is inserted in a receptacle of said supporting plate such that said plug-in connector is flexibly movable in said plane of said supporting plate; and a damping ring, attached to said plug-in connector such that when said plug-in connector is in an installed state on the housing, said damping ring rests between a surface on said base section of said plug-in connector and the housing.