US 6,981,897 B2
Waterproof construction for a ground terminal fitting, a method and an apparatus for waterproofing a ground terminal fitting
Atsushi Sakatani, Yokkaichi (Japan)
Assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., (Japan)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/864,959.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-169372 (JP), filed on Jun. 13, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0253871 A1, Dec. 16, 2004
Int. Cl. H01R 13/58 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—606 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A waterproof construction comprising:
a terminal fitting having a connecting portion for connection to an external member, an extension extending from the connecting portion and a wire connection portion extending from the extension;
a plurality of bundled wires connected together with the wire connection portion of the terminal fitting to define a connected portion of the wires with the terminal fitting, the wires diverging from one another and being spaced apart from each other at location spaced from the connected portion of the wires with the terminal fitting; and
a molding resin surrounding the extension of the terminal fitting, the connected portion of the wires with the terminal fitting and the diverging and spaced apart portions of the wires spaced from the terminal fitting.