Patent ID: 7210948

Claim:
A connector, comprising: a housing including a receptacle for receiving a mating housing, the receptacle having two opposed side walls and two opposed end walls extending continuously between and joining the side walls to define an inner peripheral surface for the receptacle; a lever mounted rotatably on at least one of the side walls of the housing and configured to assist a connection of the housing with the mating housing; and a moving plate for positioning terminal fittings in the receptacle, the moving plate being moveable together with the mating housing towards a back side of the receptacle while the housing is being connected to the mating housing, the moving plate having a surrounding wall defining outer peripheral end surfaces opposed to the end walls of the receptacle; and shake preventing projections provided on at least one of the outer peripheral end surfaces the moving plate and at least one of the end walls defining the inner peripheral surface of the receptacle.