Yazaki Corporation

Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.

Masanori Kikuchi

Toshiharu Kudo

Masahiro Kanda

Tsuyoshi Hamai

Yasukazu Inoue

Tomohiko Kimura

Shuichi Ohya

The locking structure includes a locking part configured to lock with mating members defining locking holes. The locking part includes at least two insertion parts. The insertion parts include pairs of guide walls defining insertion channels extending in respective directions for inserting and supporting mating members. The insertion parts include locking protrusions between guide walls for engaging with the locking holes of the mating members.

Locking structure and wire-harness component

Connector assembly ( ) includes internal and external connector housings ( ) matable with each other. The assembly includes a cam projection ( A) provided to one of the internal and external connector housings. The assembly includes a lever ( ) provided rotatably to another one of the internal and external connector housings. The lever defines a cam channel ( ) for guiding the cam projection therein to mate the internal and external connector housings with each other. The assembly includes a false-assembly preventing structure ( Ba, Bb S , S ) operative to prevent false-assembly of the internal and external connector housings at an initial mating. The lever is rotatable to push the cam projection to space the internal and external connector housings off.

Connector assembly

An integrated circuit includes an insulated-gate field effect transistor and a protection device coupled to either the source or drain of the transistor. The protection device includes a gate-controlled diode having a breakdown voltage that is less than the breakdown voltage of the drain of the field effect transistor.

Gate controlled diode protection for drain of IGFET

A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a gate insulating film which has a relatively thin portion in the vicinity of one of the source and drain regions at which p-n junction breakdown is performed for carrier injection.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masanori Kikuchi