Patent ID: 8840409

Claim:
A lever-equipped connector unit, comprising: a housing being capable of receiving a terminal therein; a lever rotatably coupled to the housing, and formed in a horseshoe shape, the lever being capable of rotation when the housing is in an engaged state with the counter housing and when the housing is in an unengaged state with the counter housing; and a counter housing being engageable with the housing, wherein the lever has a pair of arm plates configured to sandwich the housing therebetween and having a cam portion therein, wherein the counter housing has a peripheral wall engageable with the housing, and a pair of driven pins being slidably engageable with the cam portion and formed in the both outer surfaces of the peripheral wall, wherein the housing engages with the counter housing as the driven pin proceeds into the cam portion and the lever rotates from its stand-by state, wherein the arm plate of the lever has a sliding portion formed in a tip or end portion of the lever, which is situated in its stand-by state, and extending toward the counter housing, wherein the peripheral wall of the counter housing has a first guiding member thereon, and wherein the first guiding member is configured to slide the sliding portion of the arm plate, which collapse inward, thereon, as well as, to guide the sliding portion toward the outside of the peripheral wall.