Systems and methods for sealing a pothead connection to prevent external fluids from leaking into an ESP motor. In one embodiment, a pothead housing has a set of sealing assemblies, where each of the sealing assemblies has a sealing body that is positioned in a port of the motor's housing to form a direct seal against both a corresponding motor lead extension cable and the motor housing. The sealing assembly has a pothead terminal that is electrically connected to the conductor of the corresponding cable. When the pothead is secured to the motor housing, the pothead terminal engages a corresponding motor housing terminal positioned in the port. The motor housing terminal is connected to the motor windings, so this electrically connects the motor lead to the windings. An insulator is positioned to electrically isolate the motor housing terminal from the housing itself.

A connector mainly includes a main base body, one end of which has a guide sleeve, the other end of the main base body has a butting holes, and the guide sleeve is connected with a connecting module. The connecting module further includes a connecting base which includes a connecting element. The connecting module further includes a butting seat correspondingly engages the guide sleeve, and a conductive module is housed inside the main base body. The conductive module further includes a central pin, and the central pin is provided with a second waterproof gasket. The second waterproof gasket for the central pin extending therethrough and abuts against a side of a convex seat. The central pin extends through a sleeve which is correspondingly connected with a conductive base, and the central pin is sleeved in the sleeve and the conductive base. Finally, the conductive module is further correspondingly sleeved with a fixing seat and a protective sleeve in sequence. A waterproof layer protrudes outward on the outer peripheral surface.

A cable system component includes a housing having a seal-grasping surface portion and a seal having an elastically deformable tubular body attached to the housing. The body has a posterior sealing surface that cooperatively engages the seal-grasping surface portion of the housing and a forward sealing surface configured to cooperatively engage an interface port. The forward sealing surface includes a radially inner facet divided into a forward portion and a rearward portion by an inner annular groove in the inner facet. The seal includes an anterior portion and a posterior portion connected by a thinned neck portion, the forward portion of the radially inner facet is on the anterior portion, and the rearward portion of the radially inner facet is on the posterior portion. The rearward portion of the radially inner facet includes a sealing edge surface that is configured to cooperate with an outer surface of the interface port in order to provide a sealed connection between the connector and the port when the anterior portion is removed from the seal. The inner annular groove is radially aligned with the neck portion and is configured to keep the neck portion away from the sealing edge of the rearward portion of the radially inner facet when the anterior portion is removed from the seal.

The prevent invention relates to connector fields, and more particularly, to an engagement structure of Ethernet connector for vehicle. The plug and the socket are combined and engaged; the plug shell mounted around an outer periphery of the male terminal assembly; the plug shell including a lock plate and a lock seat. When the plug is combined with the cable end socket, the plug shell is inserted into the cable end socket shell, with the circular male terminal combined with the circular female terminal. When the lock plate is pushed from the second end toward the first end of the rail, the ramp elastically crosses over the second end of the bolt member to be engaged between the ramp and the protrusion, and the hook member is engaged with the outer hook.

A watertight electrical connection system to flat-wire conductors of a flexible circuit is described including a watertight electrical connector that houses connector terminals within a cavity. A contact surface of the watertight electrical connector is configured to mate with a connection area on a surface of the flexible circuit. The connection area is of variable thickness. A seal surrounds an opening to the cavity to form a watertight connection between the connector terminals and one or more of the flat-wire conductors within the connection area on the surface of the flexible circuit. A retainer fits over the flexible circuit and onto the watertight electrical connector to compress the seal and form the watertight connection between the surface of the flexible circuit and the contact surface, which is of variable thickness.

The present invention relates to a boot and connector assembly. The boot has a through hole passing therethrough and a boot body enclosing the through hole, the boot body comprising: a neck sealing portion presenting a substantially cylindrical shape, wherein the neck sealing portion has an inner diameter maintained substantially constant; a body portion located at the proximal side of the neck sealing portion and presenting a generally cylindrical shape, wherein the body portion has an inner diameter and an outer diameter that are both greater than the inner diameter and the outer diameter of the neck sealing portion; and a gap passing portion connecting the neck sealing portion to the body portion and having a substantially frustoconical shape, wherein the gap passing portion has an inner diameter gradually increasing from the inner diameter of the neck sealing portion to the inner diameter of the body portion, and an outer diameter gradually increasing from the outer diameter of the neck sealing portion to the outer diameter of the body portion. The boot of the present disclosure effectively solves the problem that the boot interferes with other components so that the boot is unable to extend to the antenna panel when the mounting space is small, and also has the advantages of simple to manufacture, convenient to mount and high efficiency.

A gas resistant pothead system and method for electric submersible motors. A gas resistant pothead system includes a lead foil wrapped motor lead cable (MLE) extending through a pothead, a sleeve of an insulator block inside the pothead, the sleeve including gold plating and lead-foil wrapping over the gold plating, and a lead-to-gold seal formed between the gold plating of the sleeve and the lead foil wrapping over the gold plating. A method of creating a seal to gas around a power cable connection to a downhole electric submersible motor includes wrapping lead foil around a MLE extending through a pothead, continuing the lead foil wrapping around a gold-plated sleeve of an insulating block inside the pothead, mechanically reinforcing the lead foil with an encapsulant, and bonding the lead foil to the gold plating of the insulating block.

An electrical terminal having a terminal attachment portion, a wire attachment portion and a transition portion. The wire attachment portion is configured to receive wires of a cable therein. The transition portion extends between the terminal attachment portion and the wire attachment portion. A flow barrier is provided on the transition portion proximate an end of the transition portion. The flow barrier constrains an adhesive/sealant applied to the wires positioned in the wire attachment portion from flowing from the wire attachment portion to the terminal attachment portion.

A wire harness includes a cable that includes electric wires and a sheath covering the electric wires and is arranged so that the electric wires are exposed from an end portion of the sheath, a housing that accommodates the electric wires exposed from the end portion of the sheath, wire seal members arranged inside the housing to seal between the electric wires and the housing, a holder that includes an elastic body, a cylindrical sheath-side cylinder portion including an inner circumferential surface in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the sheath, and a cylindrical housing-side cylinder portion in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the housing, the sheath-side cylinder portion and the housing-side cylinder portion being integrally formed, and a first pressing member that presses the housing-side cylinder portion toward the housing and thereby fixes the housing-side cylinder portion to the housing.

An electrical fitting for securing PVC jacketed metal clad (PVC-MC) or Teck 90 electrical cable to an electrical box or panel in a liquid-tight and concrete-tight fit. The electrical fitting includes a tubular fitting body having a threaded inbound and outbound end, a gripper ring, one or more grommets, a bushing, a sealing ring, a locknut, and a gland nut. The grommet includes an outbound end with a tubular wall portion and an inbound end with a flange and an inner lip. The gripper ring includes a tubular base, one or more fingers extending from the base, and arcuate ends on the fingers. The fingers include a curvature which matches the curvature of the base. The fitting will accommodate a range of cable sizes and while providing a liquid-tight and concrete-tight connection and proper electrical grounding of the cables to an electrical box or panel.