Patent ID: 6132262
Filing Date: 2000-10-17
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
Electrical connector formed from two parts (1, 2), each comprising a housing (5, 8), in which at least one contact (3, 4) comprising a retaining skirt (12) is held by an insulator (6, 7; 9, 10), the said contact being plugged from the rear side into the insulator and retained in the latter by its skirt, characterized in that the insulator of each connector part (1, 2) is divided transversely to the contact plug-in direction into a front part (6, 9) and a rear part (7, 10) comprising positioning means (20, 21, 26, 27) making it possible to hold them in a first mutual position, in which they are spaced from one another, and in a second mutual position, in which they are close to one another, in that the rear part (7, 10) comprises, for each contact (3, 4), retaining means (23) allowing the skirt (12) of the contact (3, 4) to pass by experiencing elastic deformation when the said skirt goes across them, and in that the front part (6, 9) comprises, for each contact (3, 4), securing means (15) which are designed so asa) not to act on the retaining means (23) of the rear part in the said first position, andb) to cooperate with the retaining means (23) of the rear part, in orderb1) to prevent passage from the said first position to the said second position when a retaining skirt (12) of a contact (3, 4) has only partially gone across the retaining means (23), andb2) to prevent a retaining skirt (12) of a contact from going across the retaining means (23) in the said second position.