Patent ID: 8033843

Claim:
A lever type connector comprising: a first housing for accommodating a plurality of connecting terminals; and a rotating lever having a cam slit formed therein; wherein said rotating lever is rotatable to pull a cooperating housing toward said first housing to attain an engaged condition in which said cooperating housing is engaged with said first housing and a plurality of connecting terminals accommodated by said cooperating housing are connected to said plurality of connecting terminals accommodated by said first housing; wherein said first housing comprises a locking mechanism for engaging and locking a part of the rotating lever with a part of the first housing at a position to which the rotating lever is rotated to attain the engaged condition of the first housing with the cooperating housing; and wherein said locking mechanism comprises: locking holes formed in side walls of said rotating lever; resilient movable members having a substantially -shape provided in side walls of said first housing; locking claws formed on said resilient movable members, said locking claws protruding outwardly and being engageable with said locking holes; and a release mechanism including releasing projections each provided at an end portion of a respective one of said movable members, wherein the releasing projections protrude outwardly farther than the locking claws, and wherein said locking claws are removable from the locking holes by pushing said releasing projections inward.