Patent ID: 8282427

Claim:
A connector comprising: a housing within which connecting terminals are to be installed, and a rear holder which is inserted into said housing from a rear end of the housing into a finally engaged position through a temporarily engaged position and which includes locking lances for locking said connecting terminals in position, wherein said rear holder further includes a plurality of temporary engagement locking portions and a plurality of final engagement locking portions, each said temporary engagement locking portion including a front claw and a rear claw which are separated from each other in an inserting direction of the rear holder and in a direction perpendicular to the inserting direction, wherein a pair of said front and rear claws is formed on each of upper and lower walls of said rear holder, and each of said final engagement locking portions is provided on each of right and left sidewalls of said rear holder, wherein, in the temporarily engaged position, front and rear portions of temporary engagement locking ridges provided on said housing are clamped between said front and rear claws, and inclined surfaces of said final engagement locking portions are urged against rear portions of final engagement locking ridges of said housing, and wherein, at the finally engaged position, said final engagement locking portions are engaged with said final engagement locking ridges.