Patent ID: 6887086

Claim:
In combination, a shuttered connector and a mating connector connected to each other in a predetermined direction, said mating connector including an insertion part having a slanted surface slanted relative to said predetermined direction, the shuttered connector comprising; a fitting part that receives the mating connector; an insulator; a shutter rotatably supported by a pair of shafts provided at both sides of the insulator between a closed position at which the shutter covers the fitting part and an opened position at which the mating connector is capable of being fitted with the shuttered connector; and elastic members that continuously urge said shutter in a closing direction, said shutter including a guide unit having an inclined surface inclined relative to said predetermined direction, said shutter being rotated to open outwards, with said inclined surface being brought into contact with said slanted surface so as to be pushed by said slanted surface when said fitting part receives said mating connector, so that said shuttered connector is capable of fitting said mating connector and wherein said shutter has a two-plates structure having two shutter plates, the shutter plates having two common shafts consisting of the pair of shafts at the both sides of the shutter plates, respectively, and moving upward and downward around said two common shafts, respectively to open and butting the ends of the shutter plates together to close.