Patent ID: 7384284
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector comprising: a multiconductor plug strip having a pair of longitudinally extending side walls having substantially parallel confronting faces and defining a longitudinally extending and transversely open slot, one of the side walls being formed with a recess open toward the other of the side walls; a multiconductor socket strip fittable complementarily and transversely between the side walls of the plug strip; a pivot seat in the recess open toward the other side wall and defining a pivot axis; a lever having a foot fittable into the recess and formed with a transversely projecting pivot fittable with the seat for pivoting of the lever on the plug strip about the axis, the lever and socket strip being of such transverse thickness that when the socket strip is in the slot and the lever foot is in the recess the pivot cannot pull out of the pivot seat; an actuating formation on the lever offset from the axis projecting transversely toward the other of the side walls; and another actuating formation on the socket strip engageable with the lever actuating formation and displaceable thereby when the other strip is at least partially fitted to the one strip to disengage and engage the strips with each other.