Torsional snap-fit latch

First and second components in combination with a latch mechanism for releasably and repeatably securing the first component to the second component, the latch mechanism comprising:

• a male latch member having a neck portion extending from the first component along a longitudinal axis and a distal head portion comprising two wings projecting laterally from the lonqitudinal axis, the male latch member having a substantially planar undeformed configuration and being resiliently urgable to a twisted configuration wherein the head portion is rotated to twist the latch member about its longitudinal axis;
• a female latch frame disposed on the second component for receiving the male latch member, the latch frame defining a passageway for receiving the male latch member therethrough and having an insertion end of a first width and an opposite latching end of a second width smaller than the first width, the female latch frame having internally disposed cam means for rotating the head portion to move the male latch member to its twisted configuration as the head portion passes from the insertion end to the latching end of the passageway and for releasing the head portion to allow the male latch member to return to its undeformed configuration wherein the male latch member is in latched engagement with the female latch frame;
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• a fulcrum disposed on the second component in a position to be adjacent to the lonqitudinal centerline of the latch member when the latch member is in latched engagement with the latch frame whereby forcing one of the wings toward the second component brinqs the longitudinal centerline of the latch member into contact with the fulcrum, rotates the head portion about the fulcrum, and moves the latch member to the twisted confiquration.