Lever-type connector
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorsDaisuke Kataoka, Kazuo Nakai
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Abstract
The lever-type connector includes: a housing; a slider having a plurality of rack teeth arranged in a first direction, the slider being movable in the first direction relative to the housing; a wire cover installed on the housing and covering a wire draw-out surface of the housing; and a lever configured to move the slider, the lever being rotatably installed on the wire cover and having a gear meshing with the rack teeth, wherein the housing has a fulcrum portion rotatably supporting the wire cover, and a positioning portion coming into contact with the wire cover and causing the gear to be located at a position at which the gear meshes with the rack teeth.
Claims7
A lever-type connector comprising:
- a housing;
- a slider having a plurality of rack teeth arranged in a first direction, the slider being movable in the first direction relative to the housing;
- a wire cover installed on the housing and covering a wire draw-out surface of the housing;
- and
- a lever configured to move the slider, the lever being rotatably installed on the wire cover and having a gear meshing with the rack teeth,
- wherein the housing has
- a fulcrum portion rotatably supporting the wire cover and including a protruding portion protruding from the housing in a direction intersecting the first direction, a rotation axis portion at an upper end of the protruding portion, and a first fitting recessed portion below the rotation axis portion;
- a positioning portion opposing the protruding portion in the first direction and coming into contact with the wire cover when the wire cover is attached to the housing;
- and
- a support receiving portion between the fulcrum portion and the positioning portion and coming into contact with the wire cover when the wire cover is in a state of being attached to the housing,
- the wire cover includes a fitting portion protruding from the wire cover in the first direction and rotatable about the rotation axis portion to be fitted in the first direction to the protruding portion in the first fitting recessed portion, and
- the positioning portion and the support receiving portion cause the gear to be located at a position at which the gear meshes with the rack teeth when the wire cover is in the state of being attached to the housing such that the gear is suppressed from contacting the rack teeth and shifting a position of the slider when the wire cover is attached to the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.