Patent ID: 8657624

Claim:
A water-proof connector comprising: a terminal, a retaining sleeve, a main body housing, and a fastening nut, wherein the terminal has an elongate rod-like or tubular shape and its rearward end is compression bonded to a conductor of a cable, and the terminal has, on an outer periphery in a vicinity of the rearward end, a plurality of projection portions; the retaining sleeve is mounted in the vicinity of the rearward end of the terminal and across the outer casing of the cable, on the outside thereof; the main body housing has a tubular bore receiving the retaining sleeve and substantially half of the forward end of the retaining sleeve is inserted into the tubular bore; a male threaded portion is formed on the exterior of the tubular bore in the main body housing; the fastening nut has a female threaded portion formed on the inside thereof and is mounted onto the main body housing while threadably engaging the female threaded portion with the male threaded portion; the retaining sleeve includes, in the forward end and the rearward end thereof, respective axial score lines, and includes on a tubular forward end portion thereof, hook-shaped portions protruding towards an axial center, the hook-shaped portions being engaged with the projection portions of the terminal; constricting tapered portions clamping the score lines in the rearward end of the retaining sleeve are provided in an inner periphery of the fastening nut; and the rearward end of the retaining sleeve is subjected to deformation in a diameter-reducing direction so as to be gripped by the fastening nut.