Patent ID: 7588454

Claim:
A connector assembly, comprising a first connector with a first housing and a second connector with a second housing, the first and second connectors being connectable with one another, wherein: a spring including at least one pair of resiliently displaceable legs being mounted on a mounting portion of second housing; the second housing being formed with passages for receiving engageable portions on the first housing upon connecting the connectors; the legs projecting into the respective passages via communicating portions communicating the passages and the mounting portion; the engageable portions contacting the legs to move forward in the passages while resiliently displacing the legs upon connecting the connectors; engageable surfaces facing rearwardly on of the engageable portions and arranged to face the communicating portions and inclined to produce forces for pushing the other housing forward upon receiving resilient restoring forces of the legs when the connectors reach a properly connected state; and a fitting space of the second connector is formed with at least one slanted surface inclined to reduce the width of the fitting space toward a back side of the fitting space.