Patent ID: 7918676

Claim:
A lever-type connector, comprising: a first housing; a second housing connectable with the first housing; at least one force multiplying member provided displaceably on the first housing, the first and second housings being connected by displacing the force multiplying member engaged with the second housing; at least two detection terminals provided in the first housing; at least one shorting member in the first housing and displaceable in a direction intersecting a displacing direction of the force multiplying member between a releasing position where the detection terminals are released from a shorted state and a shorting position where the detection terminals are shorted; a biasing means for biasing the shorting member toward the releasing position; and a pressing surface formed on the force multiplying member and being substantially parallel with a displacing direction of the force multiplying member and adapted to displace the shorting member to the shorting position in a partly connected state where the first and second housings are partly connected while permitting a return of the shorting member ( 19 ) to the releasing position when the first and second housings reach a completely connected state.