Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Joseph Donald Lytle, Jr

Donald John Mizner

A connector assembly has a slide mechanism for releasably securing and locking together a first connector body and a second connector body. To initially connect together the first and second connector bodies, mounting tabs and lock tabs of the second connector body are disposed in corresponding mounting slots and lock tab slots, respectively, in the first connector body. To releasably lock the connector bodies together, an arm of the slide mechanism is disposed in a channel of the first connector body with a portion of the arm overlying the lock tabs of the second connector body to prevent withdrawal of the lock tabs from the lock tab slots. Thus, removal of the second connector body from the first connector body is prevented while the slide mechanism overlies the lock tabs. Preferably, the slide mechanism and first connector body are adapted to receive a third connector body so that the second and third connector bodies are both releasably attachable to the first connector body by inserting and withdrawing the slide mechanism.

Serviceable auxiliary mount

An electrical connector has a terminal position assurance and lock device that acts as both a stop behind receptacle portions of electrical terminals and to prevent flexing of a first and second set of cavity flex lock arms which retain the electrical terminals in the connector to positively position the electrical terminals and prevent their inadvertent withdrawal from the electrical connector. Insertion of an electrical terminal into a terminal cavity causes the cavity flex lock arm in the cavity to flex inwardly, permitting the electrical terminal to be received in the cavity. Once an electrical terminal is inserted past the cavity flex lock arm, the lock arm returns to its unflexed position to retain the electrical terminal. The terminal position assurance and lock device preferably has three fingers and is releasably inserted into a mating formation of passages that extend laterally through the length of the electrical connector generally transverse to the orientation of the electrical terminals positioned in the terminal cavities. Two of the fingers pass behind receptacle portions of the electrical terminals to act as stops, preventing the electrical terminals from being removed from the electrical connector, while the third finger passes between the first and second sets of cavity flex lock arms to prevent the lock arms from flexing inward significantly such that inadvertent withdrawal of the electrical terminals is prevented. When desired, the terminal position assurance and lock device can be removed to facilitate removal of the electrical terminal ends from the electrical connector.

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Youngstown, OH, United States of America

Joseph Donald Lytle, Jr