Patent ID: 7699642
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector comprising: a connector body which is capable of being connected to or disconnected from a connecting object in a first direction, wherein the connector body has a particular dimension in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and the particular dimension is greater than a dimension of the connector body in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions; a locking portion which is coupled to the connector body for locking the connecting object, wherein the locking portion is adapted to release locking of the connecting object with movement thereof in the second direction; and an operating portion which is coupled to the connector body and adapted to engage with the locking portion, wherein the operating portion is adapted to move the locking portion in the second direction according to movement thereof in the third direction, wherein the operating portion comprises an abutting portion which is movable in the third direction and comprises an inclined portion inclined with respect to the third direction, wherein the locking portion comprises: a spring portion which has one end supported by the connector body, the spring portion being elastically deformable in a plane perpendicular to the third direction; a to-be-abutted portion which is connected to another end of the spring portion; and an engaging portion which is connected to the other end of the spring portion for being engaged with the connecting object in the first direction, and wherein, when the abutting portion moves in the third direction, the inclined portion engages with the to-be-abutted portion to thereby push the other end of the spring portion in the second direction. so that the engaging portion rotatably moves with respect to the one end of the spring portion with an elastic deformation of the spring portion in a plane perpendicular to the third direction.