Patent ID: 8483530

Claim:
An electrical and/or optical connector housing with a wet-mateable connector receiving part adapted to receive a mating electrical and/or optical connector counterpart on an external surface of the connector housing when surrounded by a hydrostatic pressure, the connector housing including a compartment that is pressure balanced with respect to said hydrostatic pressure, wherein one or more electrical and/or optical conductors are guided from the receiving part to a penetrator, said penetrator forming a pressure barrier between said compartment and an opposite end of the penetrator, wherein the housing comprises at least one wall part adapted to be flexed by an exterior hydrostatic pressure exerting force on the housing, thereby changing the volume of said inner compartment, said at least one outer wall part including at least one fold extending substantially orthogonal to a linear direction and the housing is adapted to be compressible in the linear direction, and whereby said outer wall part forms at least a part of the encapsulation of said compartment and the outer wall part is exposed to the hydrostatic pressure.