Electrical connector assembly with a releasable locking structure
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Yura Corporation Co., Ltd.
InventorsSam Gyun Lee, Jeong Hyeon Sim, Young Ho Jo, Hae Sung Park
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Abstract
An electrical connector assembly has a moving plate for protecting a terminal, which may easily separate the moving plate from a male plate for a rework operation for realigning a terminal pin without damage and may decrease a force when a female connector is inserted into and fastened to the male connector to push the moving plate. This improves the quality by reducing the difficulty when the female connector is inserted into and fastened to the male connector and improves a locking projection structure of the female connector such that the moving plate may easily return to the original location at all times when the female connector is separated.
Claims7
An electrical connector assembly comprising a male connector, a moving plate movably mounted within the male connector for holding a plurality of terminal pins, and a female connector inserted into and fastened to the male connector,
- wherein a slide groove having a fastening projection is formed on an inner surface of a side plate of the male connector, and outer surfaces of both sides of the moving plate are formed with elastic hooks configured to move along the slide groove while being locked to the fastening projection,
- wherein a locking end is formed on a rear plate of the moving plate such that the moving plate is fixed to a location for holding the terminal pin, and elasticity fixing levers constraining the locking end are formed on inner surfaces of an upper plate and a lower plate of the male connector,
- wherein a front edge location of the female connector is formed with a constraint release protrusion configured to push the elasticity fixing levers constraining the locking end in the constraint release direction,
- wherein both side plates of the moving plate are formed with elasticity return levers, and
- wherein locking projections are formed to protrude from both side surfaces of the female connector and configured to push up the elasticity return levers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.