US 2003/0157828 A1Published application

Connector

AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

InventorHideto Nakamura

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Abstract

A housing (20) is mountable to a mount hole (H) in a panel (P) and then is connectable with a mating housing (10). The housing (20) has a detector (50) that is movable between a standby position and a mount detecting position. Movement of the detector (50) to the mount detecting position is prevented by interference with the inner surface of the mount hole (H) while the housing (20) is being mounted on the panel (P). However the detector (50) can move to the mount detecting position when the housing (20) is mounted properly. Movement of the detector (50) from the mount detecting position to the standby position is prevented by interference with a rib (18) of the mating housing (10) while the housings (10, 20) are being connected. However, the detector (50) can move to the standby position when the housings (10, 20) are connected properly.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A connector, comprising:

a housing (20) connectable with a mating housing (10) after being mounted through a mount hole (H) formed in a panel (P), and
a detector (50) mounted to one of the housing (20) and the panel (P), including a mount-detecting portion (54) and a connection-detecting portion (58) and being successively movable between a standby position (FIGS. 26;
27), a mount detecting position (FIGS. 21;
22) and a connection detecting position (FIGS. 26;
27) along a direction (D) intersecting a connecting direction (CD) of the housings (20, 10), wherein:
movement of the detector (50) from the standby position (FIGS. 26;
27) toward the mount detecting position (FIGS. 21;
22) is prevented by interference of the mount detecting portion (54) with one of the housing (20) and the panel (P) while the housing (20) is being mounted on the panel (P), whereas the mount detecting portion (54) does not interfere with either of the housing (20) and the panel (P) when the housing (20) is mounted properly so that the detector (50) is moveable to the mount detecting position (FIGS. 21;
22), and
movement of the detector (50) from the mount detecting position (FIGS. 21;
22) toward the connection detecting position (FIGS. 26;
27) is prevented by interference of the connection detecting portion (58) with the mating housing (10) while the mating housing (10) is being connected with the housing (20) mounted on the panel (P), whereas the connection detecting portion (58) does not interfere with the mating housing (10) when the housings (20, 10) are connected properly and the detector (50) is moveable to the connection detecting position (FIGS. 26;
27).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.