Patent ID: 6497584
Filing Date: 2002-12-24
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A half-fitting prevention connector, comprising:a pair of connector housings fittable to each other; a spring member receivable in one of said pair of connector housings, the spring member being operative to prevent a half-fitted condition of said pair of connector housings by a resilient force thereof; an interconnecting portion; and a lock arm that is elastically and displaceably connected to said one of said pair of connector housings by the interconnecting portion, wherein when said pair of connector housings are completely fitted to each other, the spring member in said one of said pair of connector housings urges the lock arm in a direction in which the lock arm retains another one of said pair of connector housings, wherein a transverse cross-sectional area of the interconnecting portion is smaller than a transverse cross-sectional area of the lock arm so that only the interconnecting portion is elastically deformed when a complete fitted condition of said pair of connector housings is terminated, and wherein the spring member includes a resiliently-bendable portion which is resiliently deformed to urge the lock arm in accordance with an elastic displacement of the lock arm.