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US 4,902,244 AGranted
Connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsTakayoshi Endo, Shigemitsu Inaba, Shigemi Hashizawa
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Abstract
A connector comprising a male and female housing, in which one wall of the female housing is provided with an arrangement of slits having specific widths and spacings which, in combination with a layer of black paint provided on the side wall of the male housing that faces to slits, define a bar code. By having this feature, the fitting state of the male and female housings can be determined and the connector can be identified by type with the use of a bar code reader.
Claims10
A connector, comprising:
- a female housing having a side wall, a hollow chamber and an entrance opening to the hollow chamber;
- a male housing having an insertion section which is slidably inserted through the entrance opening of the female housing into the hollow chamber thereof when the male and female housings are to be fitted to each other;
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- means for detecting a fitting state of the male and female housings, the fitting state detecting means comprising a bar code means arranged on the housings so as to be readable by a bar code reader.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.