A connector includes a resin housing to be assembled to a wall portion of a box-shaped body, a bus bar held by the housing and having a fastened portion that is disposed inside the wall portion and is to be connected to a terminal fitting by fastening using a bolt, and a nut held by the housing with a gap between the nut and the fastened portion, the gap allowing insertion of the terminal fitting and engaged with the bolt to fasten the fastened portion and the terminal fitting inserted into the gap together. In the bus bar, a recessed portion recessed such that the bus bar is cut off is provided inside the wall portion. The recessed is exposed to an outside of the housing without being covered with a resin constituting the housing.

A molding method of a waterproof member is provided. The waterproof member is molded by molds and is for a coated electric wire. The molds include mold division surfaces including molding portions and electric wire mold clamping portions. The electric wire mold clamping portions are to sandwich the coated electric wire at sides of the molding portions. One of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a convex portion and a side wall erected on an end of the convex portion. The other of the electric wire mold clamping portions includes a concave portion. One of the molding portions includes a side wall entering groove into which the side wall enters. The method includes molding the waterproof member accommodated in the concave portion with the waterproof member being pressed by the convex portion toward a direction in which one of the mold is attached to the other.

Provided is an encapsulating resin composition that is used for collectively encapsulating a circuit board (10) and at least a part of a connector portion (20), in which the encapsulating resin composition contains a curing accelerator, the connector portion (20) includes a terminal (21) that electrically connects the circuit board (10) with the external device, and a housing (22) that is disposed on an outer periphery of the terminal (21) and is encapsulated by the encapsulating resin composition, the housing (22) contains a thermoplastic resin, and in a differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) curve of the encapsulating resin composition obtained in a case where a temperature is increased from 30° C. to 200° C. under conditions of a temperature increase rate of 10° C./min using a DSC meter, a maximum heat release peak temperature is equal to or higher than 100° C. and equal to or lower than 163° C., and a half-value width of a maximum heat release peak is equal to or higher than 5° C. and equal to or lower than 25° C.

An electrical connector including an insulating body, multiple terminals, a shell, and a sealing adhesive is provided. The terminals are disposed in the insulating body. The shell is assembled to the insulating body. The shell has an insulative exterior shell, surrounding the insulating body and the terminals. Portions of the insulating body and the terminals protruding from a front side of the insulative exterior shell are configured to be connected to another electrical connector. The sealing adhesive is filled between the shell and the insulating body and located at a rear side of the insulative exterior shell.

The invention relates to a cable lug (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″) having a connection region (9, 9″, 9′″) for connecting the cable lug (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″) to an electrical conductor (4) and having a contact part (11) for establishing contact with a terminal part (40) of an electrical system (42), in particular of an electrical system of a motor vehicle, the contact part (11) comprising a fastening opening (12) for guiding therethrough a fastening element (46) for fastening the cable lug (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″) to a terminal part (4), and wherein the contact part (11) comprises one or more further openings (13). The invention further relates to the use of the cable lug (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″), a contact element (2) with such a cable log (10, 10′, 10″, 10′″) as well as to a method for producing the same.

A connector assembly includes a connector, a housing having an insertion port, and a waterproof cap detachably attached to the housing to close the insertion port, the waterproof cap having a cap body, a first protruding portion continuously surrounding an entire periphery of an outer peripheral surface of the cap body, and a second protruding portion disposed on a front end side of the cap body in a fitting direction from a position at which the first protruding portion is disposed, when the waterproof cap is attached to the housing, the first protruding portion being press-fitted to the insertion port and contacting an entire periphery of an inner peripheral surface of the insertion port while being elastically compressed, the second protruding portion being inserted into the connector and contacting at least two inner surfaces of the connector facing each other while being elastically compressed.

The invention relates to an electrical conductor for conducting electrical current through a housing, wherein a sealing body made of an elastic material is arranged on the electrical conductor, wherein the sealing body encloses the electrical conductor in a first sealing section radially surrounding the electrical conductor, wherein a housing part is arranged on the electrical conductor. The housing part radially encloses at least part of the surface of the sealing body, which is not in contact with the electrical conductor in the first sealing section, in a second sealing section, wherein the elastic material of the sealing body comprises at least one hollow chamber and/or is an elastomer foam. The invention further relates to a corresponding method for manufacturing.

Provided is a connector apparatus including: a circuit board; a connector; and a mold resin portion, wherein the circuit board includes a conductor path, the connector includes a housing with a cylindrical shape and made of a resin, and a terminal projecting outward in an axial direction of the housing from inside the housing, the terminal being configured to connect to the conductor path, the mold resin portion collectively covers the circuit board, the terminal located outside the housing, and a portion of the housing; the housing and the mold resin portion include a welded portion formed by welding together constituent materials of the housing and the mold resin portion, and the welded portion is provided around an entire periphery of the housing and has a difference between a maximum width and a minimum width along a circumferential direction of the housing of 30% or less of the maximum width.

It is an object to provide a technique with which the length of a portion of a terminal-equipped electric wire disposed in a cavity of a connector housing can be shortened. A terminal-equipped electric wire including: a coated electric wire including a conductor core wire and an insulation coating that covers the conductor core wire; a joint terminal connected to the conductor core wire; a connector terminal to be connected to a partner terminal; a single-core relay conductor in which one end thereof is connected to the joint terminal and another end thereof is connected to the connector terminal; and a sealing member that covers an intermediate portion of the relay conductor. A wire barrel of the joint terminal is crimped to the conductor core wire and the relay conductor at the same position in a longitudinal direction of the joint terminal.

The invention relates to a moisture-protected electrical connection between a flat conductor and an insulated cable with a different cross-section to this and a soldering point, wherein a stripped, exposed cable end is surrounded by a solder foot or a cable end sleeve at the soldering point and is in material contact with an end of the flat conductor, and also a protective body.