Patent ID: 8795000
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector, comprising: a housing including terminal accommodating chambers arranged substantially side by side in at least first and second rows in the housing, at least first and second rows of locking lances projecting respectively into the terminal accommodating chambers, first and second rows of deformation spaces disposed to allow the locking lances of the first and second rows of locking lances to deform in a direction away from the respective terminal accommodating chambers; terminal fittings inserted into the terminal accommodating chambers and locked in the terminal accommodating chambers by the locking lances; and a retainer mounted into the housing in a mounting direction, the retainer including at least first and second deformation preventing plates, each of the deformation preventing plates having opposite front and rear ends and opposite left and right sides extending between the front and rear ends, and left and right couplings coupled respectively to the left and right sides of the deformation preventing plates from the front end toward the rear end of each of the deformation preventing plates to define a substantially rectangular tube, the rear end of the first deformation preventing plate, including a part of the rectangular tube, being insertable into all of the deformation spaces in the first row of deformation spaces, and the rear end of the second deformation preventing plate, including a part of the rectangular tube, being insertable into all of the deformation spaces in the second row of deformation spaces, whereby the first and second deformation preventing plates prevent the locking lances at the first and second rows of locking lances from being resiliently deformed in the direction away from the terminal fittings.