Patent ID: 6030236
Filing Date: 2000-02-29
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A slidably attaching connector comprising:a female connector housing;a male connector housing mating with said female connector housing;a slide member provided with one of said female and male connector housings so as to be slidable reciprocally therein; anda lever rotated in accordance with a reciprocal movement of said slide member,wherein a base end portion of said lever is rotatably supported by the slide member through a supporting shaft, a halfway portion of the lever is interlocked with a point of action of the one of the female and male connector housings, and, at a time of attaching and detaching both the connector housings to each other, a tip end portion of the lever at an opposite end of said lever from said base end portion is free to attach to and detach from a pair of engaging portions of the other one of the female and male connector housings,wherein the slide member is provided so as to be slidable reciprocally within the one of the female and male connector housings to attaching and detaching direction of the female and male connector housings,wherein when the slide member is moved to one direction, the tip end portion of the lever engages with one of the pair of engaging portions of the other connector housing to draw the one of the female and male connector housings within the other connector housing thereby to attach both of the female and male connector housings to each other, andwherein when the slide member is moved to a direction opposite to the one direction, the tip end portion of the lever engages with the other of the pair of engaging portions of the other connector housing thereby to detach the one of the female and male connector housings from the other connector housing.