Molex Corporation

Theo Poll

Stephen A Colleran

Paul Christopher Berg

Kevin C Benes

Frederick J Gierut

Scott P Marceau

Russell L Mackowiak

Harry N Etters

Alexander Popa

Frank L Geoghegan

John O Higgins, Jr

Frank Busse

David Richard Kalal

Robert Olson

A female electrical terminal has a contact end and a terminating end. The contact end includes a pair of opposing walls for receiving a male terminal therebetween. A flexible element is disposed in the contact end for pressing against the male terminal. The flexible element includes a mounting section with spaced wall portions juxtaposed inside the opposing walls of the contact end. Complementary interengaging latches are provided between the opposing walls and the spaced wall portions of the mounting section of the flexible element. An abutment is provided in the contact end to prevent inward collapsing of the spaced wall portions and, thereby, to maintain the latches in interengagement.

Female electrical terminal

The invention generally relates to a camming system for mating and unmating a pair of connectors having a housing mounting a plurality of terminals mateable with the terminals of the other connector and a camming system for moving the housings towards and away from each other along a mating axis. A lock slide member is mounted on one of the housings and slidably movable along a path transverse to the mating axis. The lock slide member is including at least one cam track extending oblique to the mating axis and the other housing has at least one cam follower projecting into the cam track for mating the connectors in response to sliding movement of the lock slide member. According to the invention, a lever means is pivotally mounted on the lock slide member, and an arcuated slot is disposed in the lever means slidably engaging a projection formed in one of the housings.

Electrical connector assembly with improved camming system

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Reichshofen, France

Theo Poll