Patent ID: 6059598
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
An electrical connector comprising a pair of housings that interfit with one another to form the connector, one of said housings including a resilient lock piece connected thereto for elastic and pivotal movement, and the other of said housings including a protrusion that engages with said lock piece to retain said housings in an interfitted condition;a biasing part provided on one of said housings, said biasing part including a contact part positioned closely adjacent but spaced from said lock piece and being elastically deformable by pivotal movement of said lock piece in one direction;wherein when said housings are fitted together, said lock piece is deflected in the one direction by said protrusion to engage and elastically deform said biasing part so that said biasing part provides an elastic restoring force to said lock piece, in addition to a restoring force of the lock piece itself, which biases said lock piece to an original position when said pair of connector housings are normally fitted together.