Detachable plug connection

Abstract

The locking lever of a detachable electrical plug connection can be produced cost-effectively and makes it possible to lock the plug connection securely. The locking lever is manufactured completely from a sheet-metal part, first guide elements, by means of which the locking lever is mounted on a plug housing such that it can rotate, being produced on the one hand, and second guide elements, by means of which the locking lever engages in guide tracks of a plug receptacle, being produced, for example via a deep-drawing or thermoforming process on the other hand. For functionally secure guidance of the locking lever, the first guide elements preferably have stamped projections as an axial withdrawal protection device, which secure the position of the locking lever even when forces are applied in this position which are directed transversely with respect to the pivoting direction. The locking lever is preferably used in the case of multipole elongated electrical plug connections.

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