LEVER LOCK CONNECTOR AND CONNECTOR UNIT HAVING THAT

• US 20130224974A1
• Filed: 11/14/2011
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Furuya, Yoshinobu, Hasegawa, Hirotaka, Matsumura, Hiroyasu
• Granted Patent: US 9,130,324 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/153
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/62938 Pivoting lever comprising own camming means
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/005 requiring successive relative motions to complete the coupling, e.g. bayonet type

Abstract

A connector 1 has a housing 4 including a side wall 42 extending vertically from a base plate 41 and a pair of projections 45 projecting from the side wall, and a lever 5 including a pair of plate members 50A having a guide groove 53 and a plate connecting member 50B connecting the pair of plate members. The lever is positioned from a release position to a slide start position, at which the surface of the base plate is in parallel to the lengthwise direction of the guide groove 53, and slid along the lengthwise direction of the guide groove 53. A first surface 5a at a side apart from the guide groove is vertical to a slide direction at the slide position and a second surface 5b at a side near to the guide groove is vertical to a connecting direction Z at the release position.

Claims

1. A lever lock connector, comprising:

a housing including a base plate, in which a terminal is arranged, a side wall extending vertically from an edge of the base plate, and a pair of projections projecting from the side wall so as to be apart from each other; and

a lever including a pair of plate members arranging the housing therebetween and having a linear guide groove, through which each of the pair of projections is passed, and a plate connecting member connecting the pair of plate members,

wherein the lever is attached to a mating connector, and rotated around the projections from a release position, at which a surface of the base plate intersects a lengthwise direction of the guide groove so as to form an angle between surface of the base plate and the guide groove lower than 90 degree, to a slide start position, at which the surface of the base plate is in parallel to the lengthwise direction of the guide groove, and slid along the lengthwise direction of the guide groove,

wherein the plate connecting member includes a first surface at a side apart from the guide groove and a second surface at a side near to the guide groove, and the first surface is arranged vertically to a slide direction when the lever is located at the slide start position, and the second surface is arranged vertically to a connecting direction when the lever is located at the release position.

2. The lever lock connector claimed in claim 1, wherein an end at a side near to the plate connecting member of the plate member is curved along a rotating direction.

3. A connector unit comprising a lever lock connector claimed in claim 1 and a mating connector which the lever lock connector is connected with.

4. A connector unit comprising a lever lock connector claimed in claim 2 and a mating connector which the lever lock connector is connected with.