Patent 7722396 was granted and assigned to Yazaki on May, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A connector including seal bodies having an excellent sealing characteristic. The seal body puts an electric wire between the seal body and the other seal body so as to maintain a watertight characteristic between the electric wire and the seal bodies. The seal body includes: an abutting surface of the seal body, which abuts against a mating abutting surface of the other seal body when the seal bodies overlap each other; a groove which positions the electric wire inside the seal bodies; a lip part which projects from an inner surface of the groove and from the abutting surface.