Patent ID: 6533600
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector fitting construction comprising:a pair of female and male connectors fitted together; a resilient member, received in a housing of one of said two connectors, for applying a resilient force thereof to at least one of said pair of said female and male connectors to avoid a half-fitted condition of said pair of female and male connectors; a slider slidably supported within said housing, and when said one connector is fitted relative to the other connector, said slider cooperates with said resilient member to flex a lock arm of a cantilever-type, mounted on said housing, operable to retainingly engage said lock arm with said other connector; and a slanting projection, having a front slanting surface, formed on an upper surface of a housing of said other connector; an engagement groove for engagement with an engagement projection, formed at a distal end of said lock arm, said engagement groove being formed at a rear end of said slanting projection; a pair of abutment projections formed respectively at opposite side portions of a lower surface of an elastic arm provided at said slider; a pair of stopper projections formed on the upper surface of said housing of said other connector, and pressed respectively against said abutment projections during a connector fitting operation to move said slider toward a rear end of said one connector; and an abutment surface of a generally trapezoidal shape formed on a front surface of at least one of each abutment projection and each stopper projection.