Ball pin connector

A ball pin connector comprising:

• a sleeve-like housing having a cavity and an inner wall;
• an elastic ball bearing received within the cavity, with the elastic ball bearing having a lower circumferential wall portion and an outer wall, and with the elastic ball bearing being axially moveable between a lifted up position in which the elastic ball bearing is free to flex such that a ball of the ball pin connector may be pushed in and be pulled out, and a lower locking position in which the elastic ball bearing rests with the lower circumferential wall portion on an inwardly directed wall projection of the housing at a lower opening of the housing which provides support for the lower circumferential wall portion of the elastic ball bearing around the lower opening such that the elastic ball bearing is prevented from flexing and such that the ball is prevented from being removed therefrom;
• wherein the housing and the elastic ball bearing are provided with cooperating surface structures capable to be brought into engagement by relative rotation of the housing and the elastic ball bearing such that the elastic ball bearing is held in the lifted up position, and to be brought by relative rotation of the housing and the elastic ball bearing out of engagement such that elastic ball bearing is pressed down by a spring to the locking position;
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• wherein the cooperating surface structures are provided on the inner wall of the housing and on the outer wall of the elastic ball bearing as a plurality of projecting surface structures arranged circumferentially distributed with gaps in between such that in a first rotational state of the elastic ball bearing within the housing the projecting surface structures are aligned to be able to come into engagement such that the elastic ball bearing is held in the lifted up position, and such that in a second rotational state of the elastic ball bearing the projecting surface structures of the elastic ball bearing are aligned with gaps of the projecting surface structures of the housing such that they may move past each other such that the elastic ball bearing, when the elastic ball bearing is pressed downwardly by the spring, is able to reach the locking position.