Electrical connector and squib connection device

A squib connection device comprising:

• a partner device that has
• an inflator housing provided with a socket that is recessed toward a counter mating side from a surface on a mating side,
• a squib provided on the counter mating side of the inflator housing such that a squib terminal rises up toward the mating side from a bottom portion of the socket, and
• a retainer that is attached to the socket;
• and
• an electrical connector that can be mated to the partner device,
• wherein the electrical connector includes
• a support member,
• a connector housing that has a mating portion capable of being mated to the retainer, and that is provided such that the position of the connector housing relative to the support member can move between a first position and a second position that is on the mating side relative to the first position,
• an electrical terminal that is provided in the connector housing and has a contact portion that can come into contact with the squib terminal at least when the mating portion of the connector housing is mated to the retainer, and
• an elastic member that is provided between the support member and the connector housing and presses the connector housing toward the counter mating side relative to the support member using elastic restoring force,
• wherein the support member is provided with a flexible leg portion that extends toward the mating side, an end portion on the mating side of the leg portion being provided with an abutting portion capable of abutting against a receiving face formed on the mating side of a jutting portion that is provided on the retainer so as to jut out laterally,
• the connector housing is provided with a pressing portion that presses the leg portion laterally such that the leg portion moves away from the receiving face when the connector housing moves from the first position to the second position, and
• when the abutting portion of the leg portion of the support member is abutted against the receiving face of the jutting portion of the retainer, and the connector housing at the first position is pressed toward the mating side, the elastic member undergoes elastic deformation, and if the connector housing does not reach the second position, the connector housing returns to the first position due to being pressed in the counter mating direction relative to the support member by elastic restoring force of the elastic member, and if the connector housing reaches the second position, the abutting portion moves away from the receiving face due to being pressed by the pressing portion, the support member is pressed toward the mating side due to being subjected to elastic restoring force of the elastic member, and the connector housing becomes relatively positioned at the first position.