Patent ID: 8025513

Claim:
A lever type connector, comprising: a connector housing formed with a fitting opening at a front face in a fitting direction in which the connector housing is fit into a mating connector, and having a rear face from which a wire is lead out; a pair of shafts projected on opposite sides of the connector housing and extending in a direction orthogonal to the fitting direction; a lever attached to the connector housing and including a pair of parallel plates and a grip portion connecting the parallel plates with each other, each of the parallel plates formed with a reception hole into which one of the shafts is inserted and a cam groove with which a cam pin of the mating connector is engaged; a retaining portion provided on the lever; and a plurality of first retaining projections and a plurality of second retaining projections, the first retaining projections being respectively provided at one end portion and an opposite end portion of each of the opposite sides of the connector housing, the second retaining projections being respectively provided at the one end portion and the opposite end portion of each of the opposite sides of the connector housing, and wherein the housing is configured to retain the lever by engaging with the retaining portion, wherein the retaining portion of the lever is configured to be retained by at least one of the first retaining projections so that the lever is located at a first position where the rear face is exposed so that a terminal connected with the wire can be inserted through the rear face, and the retaining portion of the lever is configured to be retained by at least one of the second retaining projections so that the lever is disposed in a second position to dispose the cam groove at a position where the cam groove can receive the cam pin of the mating connector, and wherein the retaining portion selectively engages with either the at least one first retaining projection or the at least one second retaining projection.