Patent ID: 6935893

Claim:
An electrical connector, comprising: a housing having a front mating end, a rear terminating end and at least one terminal-receiving passage extending in a direction defining an insertion axis extending between said ends, the passage having a rear open end communicating with the rear terminating end of the housing; a TPA device engageable with the housing at said front mating end thereof in a pre-load position and including a through passage communicating with the terminal-receiving passage in the housing, the TPA device being movable rearwardly from said pre-load position to a locking position; a terminal insertable through the rear terminating end of the housing into the rear open end of the terminal-receiving passage along said insertion axis and into the through passage in the TPA device for conjoint movement with the TPA device from said pre-load position to said locking position; terminal locking means including a locking surface on the housing at said terminal-receiving passage and engageable with a locking shoulder on the terminal; and complementary interengaging ramp means between the TPA device and the housing and extending at an angle to said axis for moving the locking shoulder of the terminal transversely of said axis onto the locking surface on the housing as the TPA device and the terminal move conjointly from said pre-load position to said locking position angularly of said axis.