The Whitaker Corporation

Jorg Kunze

Lothar Andreas Post

Jean-Pierre Picaud

Thierry Mezin

Dieter Lietz

Lukas Pniak-Pawlik

A connector assembly comprises a gear member having a pinion engageable with the rack of a complementary connector. The gear member comprises a lever arm for actuating the pinion. The gear member is latched in the fully coupled position by a resilient latching member of the connector housing. A secondary locking slide member can be shifted from a pre-locked position to a locked position such that an end portion is positioned below the resilient latching arm to prevent biasing thereof. Safe and reliable locking of the complementary connectors is thus achieved.

Connector with pivotable coupling lever

A connector assembly having a trough-shaped accommodating part and a plug part which can be plugged into the latter where the plug part has an essentially rectangular cross-section and in the vicinity of the two end edges, a safety rib extends in the plugging direction outward therefrom in such a way that the width the respectively opposite safety ribs is greater than the width of the basic plug part and the accommodating part has a plug channel with safety grooves for accommodating the safety ribs in the longitudinal side walls such that the plug part is receivable therein, the plug part having a surrounding housing and a socket housing that can be telescopically pushed into the surrounding housing through an insertion opening on a transverse side surface and complementary latching structure is provided on the surrounding housing and on the socket housing, for the purpose of latching the socket housing in the surrounding housing where the safety ribs are fitted to the socket housing or the surrounding housing on the side with the insertion opening.

Electrical connector assembly

An electrical connector assembly is comprised of a housing member having a slidable cover, together which is interconnectable to a header member. The header includes camming grooves positioned on inside surfaces of upstanding walls whereas the connector assembly includes locking lugs positioned on outside surfaces of the cover member. The cover member is transversely slidable relative to the housing such that moving the cover transversely can bring the connector assembly into full electrical engagement with the header assembly.

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Russelsheim, Germany

Jorg Kunze