US 2006/0223383 A1Published application

Connector device

AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

InventorsYutaka Kobayashi, Yuuichi Nankou, Yutaka Noro, Satoru Nishide, Masahiro Noda, Keiichi Nakamura

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Abstract

A female housing (10) is mounted into a male housing (30) in a direction substantially normal to a connecting direction of the two housings (10, 30), and is inserted from this mount position toward the back side of a receptacle along the connecting direction. A moving plate (40) is assembled inside the receptacle (34), has an opening (61A) that is open toward a side from which the female housing (10) is mounted, and is formed with a guiding wall (61) for positioning the female housing (10) before the connection is started by being brought into contact with the upper surface and the opposite side surfaces of the female housing (10) reaching the mount position through the opening (61A).

Claims35

Dependent claims

A connector comprising a first housing (30;

30Q) with a receptacle (34), a second housing (10;
10Q) fittable into the receptacle (34), the second housing (10;
10Q) being mounted into the first housing (30;
30Q) at an angle to a connecting direction (CD) of the two housings (30, 10;
30Q, 10Q) and being inserted from a mount position towards a back end of the receptacle (34) substantially along the connecting direction (CD), at least one guiding wall (61) being formed before an opening edge of the receptacle (34) and having an opening (61A) that opens towards a direction from which the second housing (10;
10Q) is to be mounted, the guiding wall (61) being configured to contact a front surface of the second housing (10;
10Q) with respect to a mounting direction and opposite side surfaces of the second housing (10;
10Q) to position the second housing (10;
10Q) before connection is started, so that the second housing (10;
10Q) reaches the mount position through the opening (61A).

7 more elements

A connector, comprising:

first and second housings (30, 10;
30Q, 10Q) connectable with each other along a connecting direction (CD) while being in a casing (50;
50Q);
a slide (80;
80Q) movable on the casing (50;
50Q) at an angle to the connecting direction (CD);
and
a member (70;
70Q) movably mounted on one of the slide (80;
80Q) and the casing (50;
50Q), the movable member (70;
70Q) having at least one operating-cam (74) engageable with at least one operating-cam receiving portion (82) in the other of the slide (80;
80Q) and the casing (50;
50Q), the operating-cam (74) having at least one cam receiving portion (71) engageable with at least one cam (37) on the first housing (30;
30Q);
the movable member (70;
70Q) being operable by pushing the slide (80;
80Q) into the casing (50;
50Q) to achieve a leverage having a point of force at an engaged position of the operating-cam (74) and the operating-cam receiving portion (82) and a point of action at an engaged position of the cam (37) and the cam receiving portion (71);
and
the cam (37) being movable relative to the cam receiving portion (71) as the movable member (70;
70Q) is operated to displace the first housing (30;
30Q) in the casing (50;
50Q) and to pull the second housing (10;
10Q) towards the first housing (30;
30Q) by a cam action between the casing (50;
50Q) and the second housing (10;
10Q).

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A connector, comprising:

a waiting-side module (30;
30Q) including a first housing(30;
30Q), and
a movable-side module (10;
50;
70;
80) including a second housing (10;
10Q) connectable with the first housing (30;
30Q), wherein:
the movable-side module (10;
50;
70;
80) being displaceable between an initial position where the movable-side module (10;
50;
70;
80) is substantially opposed to and spaced from the waiting-side module (30;
30Q) and a connected position reached by being pushed towards the waiting-side module (30;
30Q) to connect the first and second connector housings (30, 10;
30Q, 10Q), and
the movable-side module (10;
50;
70;
80) having at least one temporary holding portion (84) engaged with a holding member (90) fixed to a mounting surface (F) for temporarily holding the movable-side module (10;
50;
70;
80) at the initial position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.