Patent ID: 8182277

Claim:
A connector comprising: a housing; an insertion slot into which a connection target is inserted along an insertion direction; an actuator having a pusher, the actuator being held by the housing so as to be turnable between an open position and a close position, the actuator allowing the connection target to be inserted into the insertion slot when the actuator is positioned at the open position, the pusher pushing the inserted connection target along a thickness direction of the connection target when the actuator is turned to the close position after the connection target is inserted into the insertion slot, the thickness direction being perpendicular to the insertion direction; and a biasing member operable to bias the pusher toward the inserted connection target when the actuator is located at the close position, wherein: the actuator has a pivot about which the actuator is turned; the housing is formed with a pivot receiver that receives the pivot; the pivot has a circular cross-section on a plane defined by the insertion direction and the thickness direction; the pivot receiver is formed as a groove extending along the thickness direction; a width of the groove in the insertion direction is slightly larger than a diameter of the pivot; the pusher includes an abutment section; the abutment section is brought into contact with the inserted connection target when the actuator is turned from the open position to the close position; the abutment section has a semicircular cross-section on a plane defined by the insertion direction and the thickness direction; the semicircular cross-section of the abutment section is a half part of an imaginary circle having a center; and as seen along a width direction perpendicular to the insertion direction and the thickness direction, the center of the imaginary circle overlaps the center of the circular cross-section of the pivot in the insertion direction and the thickness direction.