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Feeding connector

  • US 5,573,417 A
  • Filed: 04/11/1995
  • Issued: 11/12/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electrical connector comprising a feeding connector half and a receiving connector half, wherein said feeding connector half comprises:

  • a case having a front half portion and a rear half portion;

    a connector main body slidably mounted within said front half portion of said case, said connector main body having terminal accommodating cavities for housing a plurality of terminals;

    a handle including a main body portion and a slider, wherein said slider is slidably mounted in a drilled hole in a partition wall within said case for causing said connector main body to slide and said slider is integrally formed with said main body portion of said handle to form a dog-legged shape;

    a rotatable lever having a working portion, an intermediate portion and an operating portion, said intermediate portion being between said working portion and said operating portion, said working portion being rotatably attached to one end of said handle within said case and said operating portion projecting out of said case;

    a preliminary locking means comprising a pair of guide channels on a front end portion of said feeding connector half and rolling pins on a front end portion of a connector main body of said receiving connector half, said guide channels having a straight introducing channel extending from an open end of said feeding connector half in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of said feeding connector half and a locking channel circumferentially curved from an end of said introducing channel; and

    a secondary locking means attached to said handle and adjacent to said rotatable lever for locking and unlocking said rotatable lever wherein said rotatable lever is locked after said feeding connector half and said receiving connector half are preliminarily locked to each other and then said rotatable lever is rotated to a position where said operating portion of said rotatable lever is rotated towards and near said handle so that said feeding connector half is completely locked to said receiving connector half.

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