Connector

View Patent ↗

Loading inventors, assignments & file history…

Monitor This Case

Get email alerts when status or documents change.

Order Certified Copies

Most orders are placed with the USPTO same day — all within 24 business hours.

Order via The Patent Place →

Pre-filled with this patent's details

Quick Facts

Patent No.: US 10,283,904
App. No.: 16/052,607
Granted: May 7, 2019
Kind: B2

External Links

USPTO Patent Center↗ Full Patent PDF↗

Abstract

A connector ( 1 ) includes a terminal, a housing ( 20 ) that accommodates and holds the terminal and is engaged with a mating housing (Ch) by being releasably locked by causing a locking portion ( 31 b ) to be locked to a locked portion ( 31 a ) provided in the mating housing (Ch) when an engagement state with a mating connector (C) is a complete engagement state, and a detection member ( 40 ) that is assembled to the housing ( 20 ) and is relatively movable in an engagement direction and a detachment direction with respect to the housing ( 20 ) between a main locking position when the engagement state is the complete engagement state and a locking release position when the engagement state is an engagement release state in which the complete engagement state is released.

Claims (47)

1. A connector comprising:

a terminal;

a housing that accommodates and holds the terminal and is engaged with a mating housing by being releasably locked by causing a locking portion to be locked to a locked portion provided in the mating housing when an engagement state with a mating connector is a complete engagement state; and

a detection member that is assembled to the housing and is relatively movable in an engagement direction and a detachment direction with respect to the housing between a main locking position when the engagement state is the complete engagement state and a locking release position when the engagement state is an engagement release state in which the complete engagement state is released, wherein

the housing includes

a main body,

a lock wall that opposes the main body in an opposing direction, which is a direction orthogonal to the engagement direction, and sandwiches the locking portion together with the main body at the main locking position, and

a flexible lock arm that is fixed to the main body,

the detection member is attachable to the lock arm,

the lock arm includes

the locking portion,

a base portion which extends in the engagement direction with one end fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the main body and has the locking portion at another end, and

a release lever portion which extends in the detachment direction along the lock arm with one end connected to the locking portion,

the release lever portion includes a support portion opposing the outer peripheral surface of the main body in the opposing direction, and

the detection member includes a detection member operating portion at least a part of which is positioned between the lock wall and the locking portion at the main locking position and which opposes the main body with the support portion sandwiched between the detection member operating portion and the main body and is positioned on a side in the detachment direction of the locking portion without being positioned between the lock wall and the locking portion at the locking release position.

2. The connector according to claim 1 , wherein