Patent ID: 7140909

Claim:
A connector to be connected to a connection object, the connector comprising: a contact having a conductivity; a housing holding the contact; an operating member coupled to the housing to bring a part of the connection object into press contact with the contact; and a locking member for clamping the other part of the connection object in cooperation with the operating member, the operating member being movable in a first direction between a connecting position at which the connection object is brought into press contact with the contact and an unconnecting position at which the connection object is not brought into press contact with the contact, and the locking member being engaged with the housing to be movable between a locking position at which the locking member engages with the operating member through the connection object in the first direction to lock the operating member at the connecting position and an unlocking position at which the locking member does not engage with the operating member in the first direction to thereby enable movement of the operating member from the connecting position towards the unconnecting position.