Patent ID: 9318847
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. An electric connector including: a housing including a plurality of partition walls and having a plurality of cavities partitioned said partition walls, a terminal being inserted into each of said cavities, said housing being formed with at least one retainer insertion hole formed through a sidewall of said housing and said partition walls in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction in which said terminal is inserted into each of said cavities; and a retainer for inserting into said retainer insertion hole for engagement with said terminal in said housing, said retainer including: a surface with which said retainer makes contact with said retainer insertion hole, and at least one projection formed on said surface, said projection passing over at least one partition wall among said partition walls, and being engaged with a particular partition wall among said partition walls, said projection being elastically deformable in said first direction said partition walls situated in said second direction to the rear of the partition walls with which said projection is engaged, being formed with a cut-out such that said partition walls do not block said projection passing through said retainer insertion hole when said retainer is inserted into said retainer insertion hole, said surface of said retainer making contact with a sidewall of said retainer insertion hole and further with one of more sidewall(s) of said cavities, said projection partially defining a width of said retainer in a direction perpendicular to said second direction.