Patent ID: 6280221
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electric connector having a pair of connector housings which are adapted to engage with each other by means of a rotation of a rotatable member fitted around an outer face of one of said connector housings, which comprises:a receiving chamber formed on an outer face of said rotatable member radially projecting therefrom;a member for detecting engagement of said connector housings which is disposed in said receiving chamber movable back and forth, and adapted to engage with said one of said connector housings at its one end before start of said engagement and engage with the other of said connecting housings at its other end after said engagement, thereby to stop the rotation of said rotatable member;an annular wall which is bulgingly formed at an outer face of the other of said connector housings in a circumferential direction; anda sliding face formed on said annular wall so as to face with said rotatable member,the other end of said member for detecting the engagement being abutted against said sliding face at the start of said engagement and sliding along said sliding face during said engagement.