Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.

Satoshi Uramatsu

Tetsu Hirose

Shinji Yamaguchi

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Tsugio Ambo

Naohito Sasaki

Michiyasu Watanabe

A pivoting lever has tongue-like movable pieces formed in a squared U-shape on both side faces of a cover member, and locking claws at intermediate parts of the movable piece. A pivoting lever is pivotally supported on a support pin of the cover member. Circular arc-shaped cam grooves are formed in a lever body part, and locking holes engaging locking claws are formed in the lever body part. When a mating housing is pressed into a housing and the lever is pivoted, the cam grooves drive a driven pin and pull the mating housing toward the housing. The lever contacts the locking claws, and pivots the locking claws while pushing them down. When the housings are joined, the locking claws returned to the original positions fitted into the locking holes, setting the lever to a locked state, thereby disabling further rotation and reverse rotation of the lever.

Lever type connector

An electrical connector that is reduced in size by appropriately combining connection terminals and a connector housing. Terminal insertion openings () for terminal accommodating holes () are formed in the rear face of the connector housing (). The terminal insertion openings () each have an elliptic cross-section, and the ellipses are arranged so as to be aligned in a specific direction. Oblong sections of connection sections, having a narrow width, of the connection terminals are inserted into the terminal accommodating holes (), along the terminal insertion openings (). The connection terminals are engaged with elastic case lances and connection sections provided in the terminal receiving holes and are fixed in position.

Electrical connector

Electric connector housing

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Saitama, Japan

Satoshi Uramatsu