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US 10,707,620 B2Granted
Connector
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsYasuo Imai, Yukihiro Fukatsu
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Abstract
A connector (10) includes a housing (12) to which a mating housing (82) is to be connected from front, side walls (56) constituting an outer surface of the housing (12) and adjacent to upper and lower surfaces via corners (59), and steps (62) provided from the side walls (56) to the corners (59) and becoming gradually thicker in a vertical direction and a lateral direction toward a front side.
Claims5
A connector, comprising:
- a housing having opposite front and rear ends, the front end being configured to be connected to a mating housing;
- the housing having opposite upper and lower surfaces and opposite side walls constituting an outer surface of the housing, the side walls being joined to the upper and lower surfaces via upper and lower corners respectively;
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- upper and lower arched steps provided at plural positions in a front-rear direction so that each of the upper and lower arched steps extends from the respective side wall to the upper and lower corners, the steps including forward-most steps that are smaller in a vertical direction and a lateral direction than each of the steps at more rearward positions, and each of the steps rearward of the forward-most steps being larger in the vertical and lateral directions than the steps at more forward positions.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.