Connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsMasatoshi Nakamura, Jun Ishikawa
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Abstract
A connector includes a housing fitted into or detached from a mating housing, and a fitting detection member assembled to a member housing section of the housing and detecting a fitting completion. The fitting detection member includes a locked portion locked to or detached from a lock section of a flexible lock arm, and a flexible arm section provided with a slip-off prevention locking section locked to or detached from a locking protrusion of the member housing section, and when fitting of both the housings is released, the flexible arm section is bent and deformed in a direction in which a locking margin between the locking protrusion of the member housing section and the slip-off prevention locking section of the flexible arm section increases.
Claims5
A connector comprising:
- a mating housing including a locked section;
- a housing fitted into or detached from the mating housing;
- and
- a fitting detection member assembled to the mating housing and movable between a temporary locked position and a regular locked position when the mating housing and the housing are fitted, wherein:
- the housing includes a member housing section configured to house the fitting detection member, a lock section locked to or detached from the locked section of the mating housing, and a flexible lock arm having locking release sections each of which is configured to slide along an inclined section of the fitting detection member and to release a locked state of the lock section and the locked section,
- the fitting detection member includes a locked portion locked to or detached from the lock section of the flexible lock arm, and a flexible arm section provided with a slip-off prevention locking section locked to or detached from a locking protrusion of the member housing section, and
- when fitting of the mating housing and the housing is released, the flexible arm section is bent and deformed in a direction in which a locking margin between the locking protrusion of the member housing section and the slip-off prevention locking section of the flexible arm section increases.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.