Initiator connector for airbag systems
AssigneeFramatome Connectors Interlock, Inc.
InventorFranz Pacher
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Abstract
An airbag igniter plug including a plug housing, a removable cover latched onto the housing, and a secondary locking clip having locking arms which are inserted into grooves in the cover and which are slidable from a rear unlocking position to a front locking position. A resilient finger on the locking clip cooperates with a ramp on the cover to retain the locking clip in its unlocking or locking position. When the locking clip is moved into its locking position, its locking arms bias the locking arms at the front of the plug body outwardly so as to engage their locking catches and prevent unmating of the plug from its mating socket.
Claims6
A plug adapted to mate with a socket of an electrical connector assembly, said plug comprising:
- (a) a plug housing (1) having a nose portion (4) with pivotable, upwardly extending lateral locking arms (5) adapted to lock said plug to a socket;
- (b) a removable cover (2) for said housing;
- (c) latching means (10-13) located on said housing and said cover for latching said cover to said housing;
- (d) a secondary locking clip (3) having secondary locking arms (18) adapted to be inserted downwardly into insertion grooves (15) in said cover (2) and to slide along an upper surface of said cover in longitudinally extending sliding grooves (14) in said cover, from a rear unlocking position to a front locking position;
- (e) said secondary locking arms (18) extending through said cover, said secondary locking arms each having an outwardly extending projection which, in said front locking position of said secondary locking clip (3), engages an interior surface of a said lateral locking arm (5) and forces said lateral locking arm outwardly to prevent disconnection of said plug from a said socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.