Electrical connectors – With coupling separator – Including retainer or joiner
Patent
1994-09-30
1996-11-19
Pirlot, David L.
Electrical connectors
With coupling separator
Including retainer or joiner
439160, H01R 1362
Patent
active
055756719
ABSTRACT:
In a pair of lever-type connectors, a U-shaped lever including a pair of cam portions is rotatably provided in one of two connector housings to be connected to each other in such a manner that the lever straddles the connector housing, a pair of cam receiving pins respectively engageable with the cam portions are provided in the other connector housing. By rotating the lever reciprocatingly, the cam receiving pins are shifted so as to connect or disconnect the two connector housing to and from each other. The lever-type connector comprises: a pair of lever support shafts provided on and projecting from one of the connector housings and the lever, a pair of bearing hole portions respectively formed in the other of the connector housings and the lever and engageable with the lever support shafts; a pair of removal prevention portions formed in one of the lever support shafts and the bearing hole portions and projecting in the radial direction of one of the lever support shafts and the bearing hole portions; and a pair of engaging surfaces respectively provided in the other of the lever support shafts and the bearing hole portions, engageable with the removal prevention portions during the reciprocating rotational movement of the lever, and notches to allow the removal prevention portions to be inserted thereinto or removed therefrom at the disconnected position of the lever.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4447101 (1984-05-01), Gugliotti
patent: 5230635 (1993-07-01), Takenouchi et al.
patent: 5257942 (1993-11-01), Taguchi
patent: 5273447 (1993-12-01), Heiney et al.
Pirlot David L.
Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd.
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