Patent ID: 7374448

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly including a pair of electrical connectors and a locking system for locking together the pair of electrical connectors, the locking system comprising: (a) a stud forming part of one of the pair of electrical connectors, the stud including a lock portion; and (b) a monolithic socket forming part of the other of the pair of electrical connectors, the socket comprising: (i) a cavity, and (ii) an aperture for providing access to the cavity, the aperture being sized smaller than the lock portion of the stud, the aperture being formed so as to temporarily dilate to allow the lock portion of the stud to pass through the aperture into the cavity of the socket and resume its original shape after the lock portion lies within the cavity, wherein the lock portion of the stud lockingly engages the socket when the stud and the socket are lockingly engaged.