Connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsKazuto Ohtaka, Masashi Tateishi
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Abstract
The present invention is to provide a cantilever structure connector without an extended portion of a main locking arm and provide also a locking feeling similar to that of a center impeller structure connector. When a male and female housings are connected to each other, rib protrusions disposed at inner walls of ribs abut to side protrusions and parts of side locking arms enter into between the main locking arms and the male housing. Accordingly, the main locking arms become temporarily a center impeller structure. When a center protrusion abuts to main protrusions, the main protrusions are subjected to a large downward force, or a large upward repulsive force.
Claims6
A connector having a male housing and female housing, comprising:
- a main locking arm disposed in one of the male housing and the female housing, said main locking arm having a cantilever structure and being flexible in a vertical direction;
- a side locking arm disposed to a side of the main locking arm, said side locking arm being flexible in a lateral direction to be sandwiched between the main locking arm and said one housing;
- a main locking portion disposed on the main locking arm;
- a side locking portion disposed on the side locking arm;
- a rib upstanding in the other housing;
- a rib engaging portion disposed in the rib, said rib engaging portion abutting to the side locking portion to sandwich a part of the side locking arm between the main locking arm and said one housing and lock the side locking portion after sandwiching when the male and female housings being connected to each other;
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- a center engaging portion disposed on a plate of the other housing, the center engaging portion abutting and pressing the main locking portion when the male and female housings being connected to each other and the part of the side locking arm being sandwiched between the main locking arm and the one housing.
A connector having a male housing and female housing, comprising:
- a main locking arm disposed in one of the male housing and the female housing, the main locking arm having a cantilever structure and being flexible in a vertical direction;
- a side locking arm disposed to a side of the main locking arm, the side locking arm being flexible in a lateral direction;
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- a rib upstanding in the other housing,
- whereby, when the male and female housings are connected to each other, the side locking arm contacts with the rib and allows a part of the side locking arm to be sandwiched between the main locking arm and said one housing, and a part of the main locking arm contacts with the other housing so that the main locking arm is depressed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.