Patent ID: 7077676

Claim:
A connector comprising a female connector, and a male connector for fitting to said female connector, one of said female and male connectors including: a connector housing; a male terminal receiving chamber formed in said connector housing; a male terminal including a wire connection portion for electrical connection to a wire, and an electrical contact portion which is electrically connected to a female terminal in another of said female and male connectors when said female and male connectors are fitted together, said male terminal being received in said male terminal receiving chamber such that said electrical contact portion of said male terminal projects outwardly from said male terminal receiving chamber through an opening of said male terminal receiving chamber; a receiving step portion which is formed in said connector housing, and has an opening peripheral surface defining said opening; a mounting portion which is formed on said male terminal, and is disposed between said wire connection portion and said electrical contact portion, and is surrounded by the opening peripheral surface of said receiving step portion; and an annular elastic seal member which is clamped between said mounting portion of said male terminal and the opening peripheral surface of said receiving step portion; and wherein said elastic seal member is held in intimate contact with an outer peripheral surface of said mounting portion over an entire periphery thereof, and is held in intimate contact with the opening peripheral surface of said receiving step portion over an entire periphery thereof, and when said female connector and said male connector are fitted together, said elastic seal member is directly clamped between said connector housing and a connector housing of said another connector, receiving said female terminal, in a direction of fitting of said female and male connectors, and is pressed by said two connector housings.