Smk Corporation

Koji Hisada

Mitsuhiro Yoshida

Koji Togashi

Yasuo Yoshiura

Yasuhiro Yanagida

Electric connector

A lock mechanism by which a mating connector socket to be mounted on a printed wiring board of an electronic equipment can be formed into a small size, and even if the direction of mounting of the connector socket is inverted, or if the electronic equipment itself is turned upside down, the locking can be easily released. In a connector plug (10) for electrically connecting a mating connector socket (20), mounted on a printed wiring board of an electronic equipment, to another electronic equipment through an electric cable (30), when the connector plug (10) is fitted in the connector socket (20), this fitted condition is locked by a lock mechanism, and the lock mechanism of the connector plug includes retractable lock pawls (12) provided at a face side of a fitting portion (11) of a generally rectangular parallelepiped shape, and lock release buttons (14) provided respectively at opposite side surfaces of a finger grip portion (13).

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Tokyo, Japan

Koji Hisada