Connector

• US 6,776,660 B1
• Filed: 04/30/2003
• Issued: 08/17/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2003
• Status: Expired

• Current Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
• Original Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
• Inventors: Kubota, Yoshifumi, Watanabe, Masahide, Kuroki, Yoshihide
• Primary Examiner(s): GUSHI, ROSS N
• Application Number:
  US10/426,218
• Time in Patent Office: 475 Days
• Field of Search: 439/680, 439/681, 439/677, 439/607, 439/609, 439/610
• US Class Current: 439/607.17
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/75 connecting to cables except for flat or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/629 Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances separate tools or apparatus H01R43/26
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/16 for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending

Abstract

A connector including a first connector element and a second connector element that are coupled into a single unit, in which the first connector element has an engagement projection that projects interior of the first connector element and extends in the direction of the depth of the first connector element so that the front end of the engagement projection is spacedly apart from the front edge of the first connector element, and the second connector element is formed with an engagement slit that extends in the direction of depth of the second connector element and engages with the engagement projection of the first connector element.

Claims

1. A connector comprising a first connector element and a second connector element that are coupled together, wherein

said first and second connector elements are each formed with a metallic shell;

said first connector element is formed with an engagement projection that projects toward an interior of said first connector element and extends in a direction of depth of said first connector element, a front end of said engagement projection being spaced apart from a front edge of said connector element by a predetermined distance;

said engagement projection is formed by cutting a C-shape slit in a top surface of said metallic shell of said first connector element and bending a tongue formed downwardly; and

said second connector element is formed with an engagement slit in said metallic shell that extends in a direction of depth of said metallic shell of said second connector for engaging with said engagement projection formed in said metallic shell of said first connector element.

2. The connector according to claim 1, wherein said engagement projection is provided at two locations of said first connector element so as to be parallel to side edges of said first connector element, and said engagement slit is provided at two location of said second connector element so as to be parallel to side edges of said second connector element and to correspond to said two locations of said engagement projections of said first connector element.

3. The connector according to claim 1, wherein said engagement projection has a predetermined length in said depth direction and said engagement slit has a predetermined length in said depth direction which is at said predetermined length of said engagement projection.