Patent ID: 6666708
Filing Date: 2003-12-23
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector assembly comprising a first connector with a first connector housing connectable with a second connector housing along a connector connecting direction, the second connector housing having first and second stages of second terminal fittings, the first stage of second terminal fittings being offset on the second connector housing along the connector connecting direction with respect to the second stage of second terminal fittings, a plurality of L-shaped terminal fittings mounted in the first connector housing, each said L-shaped terminal fitting having a terminal main body inserted in the first connector housing along an inserting direction, each said terminal fitting further having a wire fastening portion fastenable to a wire and extending in an extending direction that intersects the connector connecting direction, the substantially L-shaped terminal fittings being accommodated at first and second stages in the first connector housing such that the substantially L-shaped terminal fittings in the first stage are displaced obliquely back from the L-shaped terminal fittings at the second stage with respect to the inserting direction of the terminal fittings into the first connector housing by a distance substantially equal to the offset of the second terminal fittings in the respective first and second stages of the second connector housing, such that the L-shaped terminal fittings in the first and second stages mate with the second terminal fittings in the first and second stages substantially simultaneously, the wire fastening portions of the L-shaped terminal fittings in the first and second stages defining first and second substantially parallel arrays of wire fastening portions offset from one another relative to the connector connecting direction and extending along the extending direction, such that the wire fastening portions of the first and second stages avoid interference with one another.