Connector and a connector assembly
AssigneeSumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
InventorHideto Nakamura
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Abstract
A connector has a female housing (20) with a lock arm (35) that moves onto a lock (15) 0f a male housing (10). A slider (50) on the female housing (20) has pushable arms (52) that are pushed back by the male housing (10). This slider (50) is moved back and compresses springs (S). The lock arm (35) returns to engage the lock (15) when the housings (10, 20) are connected properly, and the pushable arms (52) are displaced by push canceling portions (38) to cancel the pushed state of the pushable arms (52). Thus, the springs (S) are released to move the slider (50) forward to an initial mount position. The slider (50) is pulled back to separate the housings (10, 20). Thus, an unlock pushable portion (37) of the lock arm (35) is pushed by the slider (50) to disengage the lock arm (35) from the lock (15).
Claims10
A connector, comprising:
- a housing (20) connectable with a mating housing (10);
- a lock arm (35) on the housing (20) and engageable with a lock (15) on the mating housing (10) when the housings (20, 10) are connected properly;
- a slider (50) assembled With the housing (20) and movable forward and back substantially along a connecting direction (CD) of the housings (20, 10);
- at least one biasing member (S) between the slider (50) and the housing (20) and resiliently compressable while accumulating a biasing force to separate the housing (20) from the mating housing (10) as the slider (50) is moved backward with respect to the housing (20);
- at least one pushable portion (52) displaceable on the slider (50) along a direction intersecting the connecting direction (CD) and being pushable back by at least one pushing portion (16) on the mating housing (10) in the process of connecting the two housings (20, 10);
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- a push canceling portion (38) on the housing (20) for displacing the pushable portion (52) to cancel a pushed state of the pushable portion (52) by the pushing portion (16) as the two housings (20, 10) are connected properly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.