Patent attributes
A connector has a pair of male and female connector housings 13, 48. The male connector housing 13 has an inner housing 15 that receives a looseness protecting wedge ring 42 having a tapered rear end surface 43a. The inner housing 15 also receives a waterproof spring packing 31 abutting against a fore end of the wedge ring 42. The inner housing 15 has an inner surface that engages with the tapered surface 43a of the wedge ring 42. On engagement of the connector housings 13 and 48, a fore end of the spring packing 31 is engaged with an inner wall of the female connector housing 48, and the female connector housing 48 is closely engaged with the inner housing 15 via the wedge ring 42. Alternatively, the inner housing 15 that receives inner and outer wedge rings 38, 41 engaged with each other. The inner wedge ring 38 has a tapered surface 39a that engages with a tapered surface 43a of the outer wedge ring 41.
