Patent ID: 8460023

Claim:
A waterproof structure for a cable connector comprising: a housing that detachably houses a contact terminal connected to an end of a cable having an outer periphery; a sealing cylinder that is disposed in said housing and holds, inside a plurality of pressing pieces, a sealing tube mounted on the outer periphery of the cable inserted into said housing; a pressing member that presses the plurality of pressing pieces of said sealing cylinder, and said sealing tube, toward the outer periphery of said cable inside said housing, when the contact terminal connected to the end of said cable is housed in said housing, said pressing member having an inner periphery; wherein engagement nibs, respectively formed on at least one pair of pressing pieces among the plurality of pressing pieces of said sealing cylinder, movably engage said pressing member; and wherein protrusions, which protrude toward the inner periphery of said pressing member, are formed on each pressing piece of said sealing cylinder, and projections, which press said protrusions of each of the pressing pieces, are formed on the inner periphery of said pressing member.