Patent ID: 7399195
Filing Date: 2008-07-15
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector position assurance device, comprising: a base panel member; and a latch assembly connected to and extending generally perpendicularly from the base panel member, the latch assembly having a tongue part and a pair of rigid rails disposed apart from and extending parallel to one another, the tongue part positioned between yet disposed apart from the pair of rails to define a pair of open-ended stop-receiving channels between the tongue part and respective ones of the pair of rails, each one of the pair of rails having a base rail piece connected to the base panel member and extending inwardly towards the tongue part and away from the base panel member and having a side rail piece integrally connected to the base panel member and the base rail piece and extending in an upward direction from the base rail piece and away from the base panel member such that one of the pair of rails forms a L-shape as viewed in cross-section and extends in its entirety from the base panel member as a L-shaped rail to terminate in a L-shaped free rail end and a remaining one of the pair of rails forms an inverse-L shape as viewed in cross-section and extends in its entirety from the base panel member as an inverse L-shaped rail to terminate in an inverse L-shaped free rail end.