Patent ID: 8337235
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A connector, comprising: a housing; lock arm provided displaceably relative to an outer surface of the housing and configured to hold a mating housing and the housing in a connected state; at least one coupling connecting the lock arm and the housing and having front and rear curved surfaces, each of the front and rear curved surfaces extending through a concave arc generated about an axis and each of the concave arcs having opposite ends; a front step extending forward continuously from the end of the concave arc of the front curved surface closer to the rear curved surface; a rear step extending back continuously from the end of the concave arc of the rear curved surface closer to the front curved surface; and two convex curved portions on each of the curved surfaces, the convex curved portions being generated about axes aligned in directions crossing the axes about which the concave arcs are generated.