Electrical connector
AssigneeMEA Technologies Pte. Ltd.
InventorsKien Sheng Lee, Chee Boon Vincent Lim
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a first connector part that has a male housing with an engaging portion formed on the outer periphery thereof; a second connector part 2 that has a female housing 3 provided with a portion defining a cavity for receiving the male housing; a sensor 7 that senses the mated state of the first and second parts; and a lock 6 that locks the first and second parts in the mated state at a regular mating position. The lock 6 is made of a clip member made of a spring wire-like body and has first latch portions 63A, 66A and a second latch portion 67A. The sensor 7 is made of a sliding sensing member having a sensing arm 73 made of a resilient piece provided with an engaging portion 73a′ that latches into the second latch portion 67A.
Claims6
An electrical connector comprising:
- a first connector part that has a male housing provided with an engaging portion on an outer periphery thereof;
- a second connector part that has a female housing provided with a portion defining a cavity for receiving said male housing;
- sensing means that senses a mated state of said first and second parts;
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- locking means that locks said first and second parts in the mated state at a regular mating position;
- said locking means being made of a clip member made of a spring wire-like body and having a first latch portion that latches into the engaging portion of said male housing and a second latch portion that latches into said sensing means, and said sensing means being made of a sliding sensing member having a sensing arm made of a resilient piece provided with an engaging portion that latches into the second latch portion of said clip member;
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- said female housing at an outer wall thereof being provided with a portion defining a through-hole that projects the first latch portion of said clip member into said cavity;
- the spring wire-like body of said clip member being mounted onto a surface of the outer wall, and said sliding sensing member being fitted also onto the surface of the outer wall slidably in a mating direction of said first and second connector parts, so that with said first and second connector parts mated the first latch portion of said clip member engages with the engaging portion of said male housing, and the engaging portion of said sliding sensing member latches into the second latch portion of said clip member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.