Electrical connector
AssigneeAptiv Technologies AG
InventorsAndreas Urbaniak, Uvaraj Ganesan, Rainer Schmidt, Kavinraj Vadivel
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a connector housing and a U-shaped lever, comprising a crossbar and two sidebars extending from the ends of the crossbar. A pair of first gear wheel elements. Each one of the first gear wheel elements is integrally formed at respective ends of the sidebars and are rotatable around a pair of first rotation pins extends to the outside from opposing outer side walls of the connector housing. The first gear wheel elements each comprise a first set of gear teeth for meshing with a teethed rack of a counter electrical connector. The first gear wheel elements each comprise a second set of gear teeth for meshing with second gear wheel elements.
Claims20
An electrical connector, comprising:
- a connector housing having at least one slot holding a connector module with electrical contacts from a set of connector modules;
- a U-shaped lever having a crossbar and two sidebars extending from ends of the crossbar;
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- a pair of first gear wheel elements, each first gear wheel integrally formed at a respective ends of the sidebars and being rotatable around a pair of first rotation pins extending from an outside of opposing outer side walls of the connector housing, wherein the first gear wheel elements each comprise a first set of gear teeth for meshing with a teethed rack of a counter electrical connector;
- and the first gear wheel elements each comprise a second set of gear teeth for meshing with second gear wheel elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.