Patent ID: 6030235
Filing Date: 2000-02-29
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector comprising:a female housing member;a male housing member;pins on opposite walls of one of said female housing member and said male housing member, and the other of said female housing member and said male housing member including a U-shape locking lever;said locking lever including two flanges and a holding bar, said holding bar including an elastic tongue, said lever being pivoted to two corresponding a walls of the other of said female housing member and said male housing member, each of said two flanges including a cam adapted to cooperate with a corresponding one of said pins, said lever being adapted to occupy a rest position wherein said cams are separated from said pins to allow engagement of said male housing member in said female housing member, and a locked position, after pivoting, wherein said pins cooperate with said cams; andsaid male housing member including an abutment against which an edge of said elastic tongue holding bar bears and a lock capable of immobilizing said lever in said locked position, said lock comprising an elastic lug including a lip, said lever including a projection constructed and arranged so that during pivoting of the lever into the locked position said projection causes the elastic lug to bend and cooperate with said lip, and said elastic tongue elastically bears against said abutment.