Patent ID: 7179136

Claim:
An electrical connector comprising: a connector body, a male terminal attached to an insulated conductor wires and a stabilizer, the connector body having a terminal cavity that extends through the connector body from an opening at an insertion end to an opening into an integral socket at a mating end of the connector body, the connector body having a rigid terminal lock that projects inward into the terminal cavity for retaining the terminal in the connector body and a cantilevered flexible beam opposite the rigid terminal lock for pushing the terminal into locked engagement with the rigid terminal lock, the stabilizer being shiftably disposed in the socket for lateral movement in the socket between a preload position and a terminal stabilize position, the stabilizer having a passage comprising a loading portion and blade stabilizing portions at one side of the loading portion, the loading portion being aligned with the terminal cavity when the stabilizer is in the preload position to allow the male terminal to be loaded into the connector body by inserting the male terminal into the terminal cavity via the opening at the insertion end so that a male blade at a forward end of the male terminal projects through the loading portion of the stabilizer passage, the loading portion being of sufficient height to allow the terminal to tilt and ride over the rigid terminal lock and into locked engagement with the rigid terminal lock, and the blade stabilizing portion of the passage capturing the male blade vertically when the stabilizer is in the terminal stabilize position to stabilize the vertical position of the male blade in the socket.