Patent ID: 7726999

Claim:
An electrical connector set having first and second connector members with the first of said members having an open end which receives an end of the second of said members, the second of said members having a bayonet slot with an entrance channel in an outer surface thereof and the first of said members having a bayonet key dimensioned and positioned to be received in said slot upon insertion of the one member into the other member, the key being rotatable with respect to an entrance channel of the slot into an offset portion of the slot preventing separation of the members by reason of engagement of said key with an end wall of the offset portion of said slot, the second member having a rotatable and axially moveable collar positioned to abut an end of the first member and moveable between a first axial position where the first member is free to move axially and rotationally to remove the key from the slot and a second axial position where the first member is prevented from undergoing an axial movement required to allow the key to be rotated in the offset portion of the slot.