[Object] To provide a connector that is attached to a hole in a tire wheel and facilitates a wired connection between electric circuits inside and outside a tire, and a method of manufacturing the connector.[Solving Means] A connector 10 is attached to a connector attachment hole 81H formed in a tire wheel 80 for connection between an electric circuit 91 inside a tire 82 and an electric circuit 95 outside the tire 82. The connector 10 includes a tubular terminal 20 that penetrates the connector attachment hole 81H, an outer seal member 42 that surrounds outside of the tubular terminal 20 and is elastically deformed by being pressed against the tire wheel 80 to provide a seal between the tire wheel 80 and the tubular terminal 20, an inner seal member 43 that is filled inside the tubular terminal 20, one or more rod-shaped terminals 30 that penetrate the inner seal member 43, a plurality of communication holes 29 formed at a plurality of positions in a circumferential direction in an intermediate portion in an axial direction of the tubular terminal 20, and a plurality of seal communication portions 44 that is integrally formed with one or both of the outer seal member 42 and the inner seal member 43 and arranged in the plurality of communication holes 29 to transmit, to the inner seal member 43, elastic force toward the tubular terminal 20 due to the elastic deformation of the outer seal member 42.
CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A CONNECTOR
VERBINDER UND VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG EINES VERBINDERS
CONNECTEUR ET PROCÉDÉ DE FABRICATION D'UN CONNECTEUR
2023-08-23
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Charging connector and method of manufacturing charging connector assembly
European Patent Office | 2019
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