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Sealed electrical connector and method of using same

  • US 4,713,021 A
  • Filed: 05/17/1985
  • Issued: 12/15/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/17/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A sealed connector assembly for receiving insertably thereinto and securing therewith electrical conductors having terminals terminated on ends thereof, comprising:

  • housing means, a rigid camming member secured to a rearward end of said housing means, and a plurality of individual wire seal members secured therebetween, defining a preassembled connector assembly prior to insertion of terminated conductors thereinto, wherein;

    said housing means having a plurality of terminal-receiving cavities extending therethrough each to receive a respective terminated electrical conductor securely thereinto;

    said plurality of individual wire seal members each associated with a said terminal-receiving cavity and said respective conductor, each said wire seal member being elongated and sleeve-like of relatively incompressible, deformable elastomeric material and having a conductor-receiving aperture extending therethrough for a said respective terminated conductor, each said wire seal member adapted to receive insertably therethrough a said terminated conductor and then initially loosely surround an insulated conductor portion therewithin substantially therealong, each said wire seal member having a forward seal portion disposed and held within a rearward section of a said associated terminal-receiving cavity and at least a rearward seal portion extending rearwardly from said cavity, said wire seal members held by said housing means prior to securing said camming member thereto;

    said rigid camming member securable to said housing means in a first fixed position after said wire seal members are disposed within respective said terminal-receiving cavities of said housing means, said camming member exposing said rearward seal portions of said wire seal members for receiving said terminated ends of respective said conductors thereinto, said camming member being movable relatively towards said housing means from said first position to a second position; and

    each said wire seal member including a camming surface portion on a radially outward surface thereof at least proximate a rearward end thereof, and said camming member having respective rigid cooperating camming means associated with said camming surface portion of each said wire seal member, all such that when said camming member is in said first position, a said terminated end of each said conductor is insertable into and through an associated said wire seal member and the terminal terminated to said conductor is securable in said associated terminal-receiving cavity, and when said camming member is moved to said second position, said camming surface portion of each said wire seal member is engaged by a said associated rigid cooperating camming means of said camming member and placed under force directed substantially radially inwardly, and the rearward section of each said wire seal member is radially deformed thereby into sealing engagement around an insulated portion of a said respective conductor, whereby said camming member cams the plurality of said wire seal members simultaneously into sealing engagement with respective said conductors.

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