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US 6,824,406 B1Granted
Electrical connector assembly
AssigneeDelphi Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRobert J Sharples, John Wicks
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AssigneeDelphi Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRobert J Sharples, John Wicks
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An electrical connector assembly has a housing and two slide assist members that are slideably supported by the housing. The slide assist members each include at least one mating slot adapted to receive a mating portion of a mating connector. A U-shaped slide assist lever having first and second spaced apart arms is pivotally interconnected with the housing and the slide assist members to move the slide assist members and facilitate mating with the mating connector. Each slide assist member includes a notch and each lever arm includes a protrusion that mates with the corresponding notch when the slide assist member is in an engaged location and the lever is in an engaged position. If the lever is disconnected from at least one of the slide assist members and an attempt to move the lever from a pre-staged position to the engaged position does not correspondingly move the disconnected slide assist member from a pre-staged location to the engaged location, the protrusion functions to interferingly abut the adjacent disconnected slide assist member thereby preventing the lever from moving to the engaged position.
In an electrical connector assembly for mating with a mating connector, the electrical connector assembly including a housing, a slide assist member slideably supported on the housing to facilitate mating with the mating connector, and a lever pivotally connected with the housing, the lever including an arm connectable with the slide assist member for causing the slide assist member to slide from a pre-staged location to an engaged location with respect to the housing in response to the lever being pivoted from a pre-staged position to a engaged position relative to the housing, the improvement comprising:
In an electrical connector assembly for mating with a mating connector, the electrical connector assembly including a housing having opposing walls and first and second slide assist members slideably supported on the opposing walls, each slide assist member including at least one mating slot adapted to receive a mating portion of the mating connector, the electrical connector assembly further including a lever pivotably interconnected with the housing, the lever including a first arm connectable with the first slide assist member and a second arm connectable with the second slide assist member, the lever being operable to move each of the slide assist members from a pre-staged location to an engaged location with respect to the housing to facilitate mating with the mating connector, the improvement comprising:
A slide sensing mechanism for a slide member slideably supported on a structure and a lever pivotally connected with the structure, the lever being connectable with the slide member for causing the slide member to slide from a first location to a second location with respect to the structure in response to the lever being pivoted from a first position to a second position relative to the structure, the slide sensing mechanism comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.