Patent ID: 6945825
Filing Date: 2005-09-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A pair of irreversible complementary connectors, one of them being a female connector, with the other being a male connector, a female housing of the female connector having a cavity with a front opening, the male connector comprising a male housing, the cavity fitting on the male housing along an insertion direction thereof, the female housing having a plurality of pin contacts accommodated in the cavity, as well as two partitions formed therein along the insertion direction so that one of the pin contacts is separated from the other, a plurality of socket contacts engaging with the pin contacts and accommodated in the male housing, and the male housing having two cutouts respectively fitting on the plurality of partitions, wherein each partition has opposite sides asymmetrical about a cross-sectional center of the partition, and each cutout also has opposite sides formed asymmetrical corresponding to the sides of each partition, such that the connectors are inhibited from engaging one another if one of them is reversed upside down relative to the other.