A connector is provided with a female contact and a housing. A protection portion of the female contact has a guide portion intersecting with a front-rear direction to guide a male contact to a receiving portion. An insertion opening of the housing is located forward of a contact accommodation portion in the front-rear direction. The insertion opening opens in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction and thereby communicates with an aperture portion. When a front of the connector is viewed along the front-rear direction, the guide portion is visible through the insertion opening at least in part.
1. A connector comprising a female contact and a housing holding the female contact, wherein:
the female contact has a body portion, a contact point, a supporting portion and a protection portion;
the body portion has a receiving portion opening forward in a front-rear direction to receive a male contact along the front-rear direction;
the contact point is located in the receiving portion;
the supporting portion supports the contact point;
the protection portion is located forward of the supporting portion in the front-rear direction and protects the supporting portion in part;
the protection portion has a guide portion which is to guide the male contact to the receiving portion and intersects with the front-rear direction;
the housing has an accommodation portion, an insertion opening and an aperture portion;
the accommodation portion accommodates the female contact;
the insertion opening is located forward of the accommodation portion in the front-rear direction and communicates with the accommodation portion;
the insertion opening opens in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction and thereby communicates with the aperture portion; and
when a front of the connector is viewed along the front-rear direction, the guide portion is visible through the insertion opening at least in part.
2. The connector as recited in claim 1 , wherein:
the protection portion extends from the body portion toward an inside of the receiving portion; and
the guide portion intersects obliquely with the front-rear direction.
3. The connector as recited in claim 2 , wherein the protection portion intersects obliquely with the front-rear direction.
4. The connector as recited in claim 1 , wherein:
the supporting portion has a fixed end and a free end located rearward of the fixed end in the front-rear direction;
the protection portion is located forward of the fixed end of the supporting portion in the front-rear direction; and
when the front of the connector is viewed along the front-rear direction, the protection portion covers wholly the fixed end of the supporting portion.
5. The connector as recited in claim 1 , wherein:
the protection portion has an end portion directed rearward in the front-rear direction; and
the body portion has a first regulating portion to regulate a rearward movement of the end portion of the protection portion in the front-rear direction.
6. The connector as recited in claim 5 , wherein:
the body portion has a bottom wall and a pair of side walls;
the bottom wall faces the contact point in the predetermined direction;
the bottom wall has side edges at both ends thereof in a lateral direction perpendicular to both of the front-rear direction and the predetermined direction;
the side walls extend from the side edges of the bottom wall along the predetermined direction to be opposite to each other in the lateral direction; and
the first regulating portion is formed to each of the side walls.
7. The connector as recited in claim 6 , wherein:
the body portion has a second regulating portion to regulate a movement of the end portion of the protection portion toward the bottom wall;
the second regulating portion is formed to each of the side walls; and
the first regulating portion and the second regulating portion are formed of a notch produced in each of the side walls.
8. The connector as recited in claim 1 , wherein:
the protection portion and the body portion form a boundary part therebetween; and
when the front of the connector is viewed along the front-rear direction, the boundary part is visible through the aperture portion.
9. The connector as recited in claim 1 , wherein the insertion opening is formed with a taper portion to guide the male contact.
10. The connector as recited in claim 1 , wherein:
the predetermined direction is an up-down direction;
the insertion opening opens upward in the up-down direction;
the body portion has an upper portion; and
the protection portion extends from the upper portion of the body portion toward an inside of the receiving portion in the up-down direction.
11. The connector as recited in claim 1 , wherein the female contact is formed of a metal sheet.