Nissan Motor Company Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Masami Toyoda

Takafumi Kishi

Toshikazu Saba

A retainer type connector can prevent a flexible locking piece from being broken and enhance properties of a housing and a retainer satisfactorily. In this retainer type connector, when retainers (43a) are inserted into retainer-mounting holes (41c) in a base body (41), lock arms (41e1, 41e2) employed as flexible locking pieces, which are provided on inner peripheral wall of the retainer-mounting holes (41c) to be protected from foreign substances, are readily deflected to engage with protrusions (43b1, 43b2) of the retainers (43a) employed as fixed locking pieces, thereby preventing the lock arms from being broken even if coupling and detaching operations are repeated. The base body (41) as a housing and the retainer can be made of a suitable resilient resin material and a suitable hard resin material, respectively.

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Masami Toyoda