Connector supporting mechanism
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsShinji Mochizuki, Tetsuya Yamashita
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Abstract
According to this invention, a lever plate 31 has a front contact portion 10 which comes into contact with a front face of a mounting object portion 36c, a front contact arm 36 having elasticity and rear contact protrusions 34,35 coming into contact with a rear face of the mounting object portion. Further, there is provided a centering tongue portion 36b which determines the center in the vertical direction of the connector main body 21 such that it presses an inner peripheral face of the mounting object hole 11 when a connector 20 is inserted into the mounting object hole 11.
Claims8
A connector supporting mechanism comprising:
- a connector main body;
- a pair of lever plates disposed on both sides of the connector main body;
- a linking portion for linking the lever plates integrally;
- an engagement lever constituted of the linking portion and the lever plates;
- a connector in which the engagement lever is mounted on the connector main body rotatably;
- a plate-like mounting object portion for supporting the connector such that it is inserted into a mounting object hole;
- front contact portions which are provided on the lever plate portion and come into contact with a front face of the mounting object portion;
- front contact arms provided on the front contact portion and having elasticity;
- hole contact portions provided at a front end portion of the front contact arm;
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- rear contact portions coming into contact with a rear face of the mounting object portion, wherein
- when the connector is inserted into the mounting object hole, the hole contact portions come into contact with an inner peripheral face of the mounting object hole with pressure so as to obtain the center in the vertical direction of the connector main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.