Patent ID: 7938688

Claim:
An electric cable device comprising: an electric cable; and a plug component coupled to at least one end portion of the electric cable, the plug component including a terminal body with a plurality of plug terminals, the plug terminals being electrically coupled to the electric cable, a hood component disposed around the terminal body, the hood component having a width measured in a first direction of the plug component, the width of the hood component being greater than a height of the hood component that is measured in a second direction of the plug component, the first direction being perpendicular to the second direction, and a plug body disposed around part of the hood component such that the hood component protrudes from the plug body in a third direction of the plug component with the third direction being perpendicular to the first and second directions, the plug body being asymmetrically formed relative to any of planes that are perpendicular to the second direction, the hood component having an outer profile shape with a pair of concave corners when viewed in the third direction of the plug component, at least part of the plug body having an outer profile shape with a pair of concave corners when viewed in the third direction of the plug component, with the concave corners of the plug body being disposed at locations corresponding to the concave corners of the hood component, respectively, when viewed in the third direction of the plug component.