Patent ID: 7077703

Claim:
Plug connector for plugging together with a complementary plug connector in a plugging direction-comprising: a contact element receiver for receiving a contact element, a screen that at least partly surrounds the contact element receiver, and a housing that at least partly accommodates the contact element receiver and the screen; wherein the screen has at least one securing element, which, when the plug connector is plugged together with the complementary plug connector, can be moved relative to a complementary securing element of the complementary plug connector into a securing position relative to the complementary securing element and by means of said securing element, and wherein a relative movement of the plug connectors out of the plugged together position can be limited in the securing position through cooperation with the complementary securing element; a latching element which is movable relative to the contact element receiver between an unlatched position and a latched position, with the securing elements of the plug connector and of the complementary plug connector being movable from an upper surface of the screen into and/or out of the securing position in the unlatched position of the latching element and with the latching element in the latched position latching the securing elements in their securing position against a movement out of the securing position.