Electrical connectors for vehicles

摘要

An electrical connection adapted for providing an electro-mechanical connection through a hole in a wall of a wheeled vehicle is disclosed. It includes an interior cable that meets SAE standard J560 and which includes an interior plug portion that has a 6-around-1 female electrical connector array. The electrical connection also includes a socket that meets SAE standard J560 and is adapted via a male interior 6-around-1 electrical connector array to provide an electrical connection to the interior cable. A gasket member is separately formed from the interior plug portion and includes a central opening sized and shaped to receive through it a connection of the interior cable plug and the socket. The gasket forms an uninterrupted water seal with the exterior side of the wall of the wheeled vehicle. One or more guide members are disclosed.

主权项

1. An electrical connection adapted for providing an electro-mechanical connection through a hole in a wall of a wheeled vehicle with the wall having an exterior side and an opposite interior side, wherein the electrical connection is adapted to connect with an exterior cable that includes a 6-around-1 female electrical connector array, the electrical connection comprising:
a) an interior cable that meets SAE standard J560 and which includes an interior plug portion which includes a 6-around-1 female electrical connector array, wherein said interior plug portion includes a locking means integrally formed with and radially extending from said interior plug portion; and, b) a socket that meets SAE standard J560 and that is:
i) adapted via a male exterior 6-around-1 electrical connector array to provide an electrical connection to said exterior cable 6-around-1 female electrical connector array; and,ii) adapted via an interior 6-around-1 male electrical connector array to provide an electrical connection to said interior cable 6-around-1 female electrical connector array; and, c) a gasket member, separately formed from said interior plug portion, said gasket member including:
(i) a circumferentially uninterrupted ring around a central opening therethrough, said opening in said gasket member sized and shaped to receive through it a connection of said interior cable plug and said socket;(ii) a substantially planar rear surface adapted to contact and form an uninterrupted water seal with the exterior side of the wall; and,(iii) recessing in said substantially planar surface extending radially outward from said gasket member central opening, wherein said recessing is sized and shaped to receive said locking means therein, wherein said recessing has an axial depth greater than or equal to a corresponding axial depth of said locking means, whereby said locking means does not block said gasket member planar rear surface from contacting and forming a water seal with the exterior wall uninterrupted around the entire hole in the wall.