Connector protective cover
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorTakayuki Hayauchi
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Abstract
A connector protective cover is provided which has a pair of cover members (2 and 3) to be joined together and which, using the pair of cover members (2 and 3), protects a latch lever that is operated to retain a pair of connectors (10 and 20) in engagement with each other, wherein the latch lever has an operating portion and an engagement effecting portion, and when the operating portion is operated, the engagement effecting portion is moved between an engaging position where the pair of connectors are retained in engagement with each other and a disengaging position where the pair of connectors are released from the engagement, and wherein the pair of cover members (2 and 3) joined together in an inseparable manner covers the operating portion and is fixed to the operating portion of the latch lever.
Claims18
A connector protective cover suitable for protecting a latch lever that is operated to retain a pair of connectors in engagement with each other;
- wherein the latch lever has an operating portion and an engagement effecting portion, the operating portion being operable to move the engagement effecting portion between an engaging position where the pair of connectors are retained in engagement with each other and a disengaging position where the pair of connectors are released from the engagement, the connector protective cover comprising a pair of mating cover members configured to protect the latch lever;
- wherein the pair of cover members are configured to join together in a secure manner accommodating one or both of the operating portion and the engagement effecting portion of the latch lever and are further configured to couple with one or both of the connector and the latch lever.
An article comprising a connector protective cover and a pair of engaged connectors at least one of the connectors having a latch lever to retain their engagement with each other, the connector protective cover having a pair of mating cover members to be joined together to protect the latch lever;
- wherein the latch lever has an operating portion and an engagement effecting portion, and when the operating portion is operated, the engagement effecting portion is moved between an engaging position where the pair of connectors are retained in engagement with each other and a disengaging position where the pair of connectors are released from the engagement;
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- wherein the pair of cover members joined together in a secure manner accommodate one or both of the operating portion and engagement effecting portion and are fixed to one or both of the connector and the latch lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.