Patent ID: 6648685
Filing Date: 2003-11-18
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector assembly comprising male and female connector housings which are mutually engageable along a fitting direction, each housing having a retainer aperture and a plurality of terminal cavities aligned with the fitting direction, and each said cavity having an electrical terminal fitting housed therein, each terminal cavity being further provided with a resilient lance at one side thereof adapted for bending into a respective bending space and retaining a respective terminal fitting therein, and the connector assembly further including a retainer for each of said housings, wherein the retainers all have the same construction, one of the retainers being insertable into the retainer aperture of each said housing to prevent bending of said lances, wherein said terminal cavities are located on both sides of a dividing plane extending in the fitting direction, each terminal cavity being associated with a bending space on one side of said plane, and said retainer being fitted into the retainer aperture in each housing along the dividing plane and setting in each said bending space to doubly lock each lance.