Patent 7285012 was granted and assigned to Yazaki on October, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The waterproof connector includes: a terminal having an electric wire; a housing body having a terminal insertion opening for inserting the terminal and a terminal receiving chamber for receiving the terminal; a waterproofing means having an electric wire insertion hole that is approximately coaxial with the terminal insertion opening of the housing body; and a rear holder which holds the waterproofing means and has a guide tube for guiding the terminal that is to be inserted into the terminal insertion opening, wherein a center axis of the guide tube is deviated from a center axis of the terminal insertion opening.