Patent ID: 9209565
Filing Date: 2015-12-08
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector to connect a mating connector, having a housing, which has a tubular housing section, in which an insulating body bearing electrical plug contacts is arranged, wherein the housing section has a plug side for the mating connector as well as a connection side for the plug contacts and the insulating body locks in place in the housing section and is able to be unlocked releasably by a tool, and wherein at least one locking device is arranged between the housing section and the insulating body, said locking device being held immovably at least axially in the housing section and being inserted at least partially into a receiving recess of the housing section and having at least one radially flexible supporting element for the insulating body, said supporting element locking the insulating body in place in the housing section and fixing it in axial direction, wherein the insulating body is releasable by a tool from the plug side of the housing section and that the locking device and the receiving recess are realised separately in the circumferential direction of the housing section, wherein the locking device has at least two shell-shaped locking parts, which are separated from one another, and the receiving recess has a corresponding number of locking part receptacles for the locking parts, which are separated from one another, which are all arranged at a distance from one another on the inner wall of the housing section in the circumferential direction, wherein the locking parts are adapted to the locking part receptacles and have respectively at least one support element for the insulating body, which is sticking out laterally, and wherein the at least two locking part receptacles extend from the plug side of the housing section in axial direction of the housing section and end before the connection side.