Patent ID: 6929500

Claim:
A connector comprising: a housing into which at least one terminal fitting can be mounted and connectable with a mating connector; a metallic shield mounted to at least partly cover surfaces of the housing, at least one resilient locking piece formed unitarily with at least a portion of the metallic shield, the resilient locking piece being resiliently deformable between a locking posture where the resilient locking piece engages the mating connector to lock the connector and the mating connector together and an unlocking posture where a locked state is canceled; and at least one movable member formed from a resin material and being rotatably supported by the metallic shield, the movable member being disposed and configured to deform the resilient locking piece from the locking posture to the unlocking posture as the movable member is rotated wherein the movable member has a rotatable shaft unitary with remaining portions of the movable member, wherein the movable member deforms the resilient locking piece by a leverage action using the rotatable shaft thereof as a fulcrum during rotation, the rotatable shaft being engaged in a bearing hole of the metallic shield at a location spaced from the resilient locking piece of the metallic shield.