Connector

• US 5,951,316 A
• Filed: 07/21/1997
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amadhl Corporation, Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Amadhl Corporation, Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hanada, Kohji, Norman, C. Timothy, Kawano, Kyoichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, HIEN D
• Application Number:
  US08/897,631
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 439/350, 439/352, 439/353, 439/355, 439/357, 439/358, 439/488, 439/489, 439/607, 439/610
• US Class Current: 439/352
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/718 Contact members provided on the PCB without an insulating housing contacts for abutting H01R12/714
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/75 connecting to cables except for flat or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6275 Latching arms not integral with the housing H01R13/6276, H01R13/6277, H01R13/6278 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/639 Additional means for holding or locking coupling parts together, after engagement, e.g. separate keylock, retainer strap

Abstract

A stopper mechanism includes: an arm part which is a part of a cover; an arc-like projection part at the end of the arm part; and a sliding member slidably provided in the cover. When the sliding member flanks the projection part, the arm part is prevented thereby from being bent and a stopper mechanism is locked. When the sliding member is allowed to slide and to be removed from behind the projection part, the arm part is allowed to be bent, and the stopper mechanism is unlocked.

Claims

1. An electrical connector for connection with a printed circuit board of a computer unit, including a connector main body attached at an end of a cable, said connector comprises:

a resilient arm part integral with a wall of the connector main body;

a round projection part projecting from an end of said arm part and being operative to be resiliently urged into engagement with an engaging part of a cooperating connector of the computer unit when said connector main body is received in said computer unit;

a sliding member mounted in said wall of said connector main body for sliding movement between a first position in which said member is disposed to flank said arm part to prevent said projection part from being displaced from engagement with said engaging part, and a second position in which said member is removed from its flanking position with respect to said arm part to allow said projection part on said arm part to be displaced from engagement with said engaging part, said sliding member being movable between said first and second positions and having a portion extending through an opening in said wall of said connector main body for access on the exterior side of said wall;

grasping means on said sliding member for pulling and pushing said slide member between said first and said second position; and

projection means extending outwardly from sides of said sliding member for limiting, by contacting a part of said wall of said connector main body cooperating with said projection means, the movement of said sliding member with respect to said connector main body as said sliding member is being pulled, whereby a pulling force imposed on said sliding member is transmitted through the contacting element to said connector main body for pulling the connector from said computer unit.

2. The electrical connector as recited in claim 1 in which said means on said sliding member for pulling and pushing it between said first and second positions has a ring shape permitting grasping of the sliding member.