Patent ID: 7661970

Claim:
A connector, comprising: a housing connectable with a mating connector, and a lever supported on the housing and having a force multiplying mechanism for connecting the housing and the mating connector by the displacement of the lever engaged with the mating connector, wherein: one of the lever and the housing includes a supporting shaft and the other thereof includes a bearing, the supporting shaft includes a recess and retaining pieces adjacent to the recess, the retaining pieces being inserted into the bearing and having leading-end flanges resiliently engageable with an opening edge of the bearing, and the bearing includes at least one restriction at least partly insertable into the recess from a leading end side of the supporting shaft and being displaceable to a deformation permitting area where resilient deformations of the retaining pieces toward the recess are permitted when the lever is assembled and to a deformation preventing area where the resilient deformations of the retaining pieces towards the recess are prevented as the lever is operated.