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Connector assembly having improved internal latching system

  • US 4,458,973 A
  • Filed: 01/28/1983
  • Issued: 07/10/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electrical plug of the type comprising an insulating housing having a leading end and a conductor-receiving end which faces oppositely with respect to the leading end, oppositely facing first and second sidewalls and oppositely facing endwalls extending from the leading end to the conductor-receiving end, a conductor-receiving opening extending inwardly from the conductor receiving end towards the leading end, and contact-receiving cavities having plug terminals therein are provided in the housing at the leading end for contacting conductors extending into the conductor-receiving opening, the plug connector being characterized in that:

  • each of the endwalls has a latch arm associated therewith, each latch arm having a fixed end and a free end, the fixed end being integral with the endwall adjacent to the leading end of the housing and the free end being proximate to the conductor-receiving end of the housing, each latch arm extending divergently from its associated endwall from the fixed end to the free end,each latch arm having a single rearwardly facing latching shoulder thereon intermediate its ends and having a handle portion extending from the latching shoulder to its free end,each latch arm having an ear on its free end extending laterally towards the associated endwall, each ear being offset relative to its associated latch arm and lying in a plane which is parallel to, and spaced from one of the sidewalls, each ear substantially closing the gap between the free end of the latch arm and the associated endwall of the housing whereby, the latch arm can be flexed towards the housing endwalls and the ears will move past the endwalls and partially across the one sidewall.

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