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Thierry Badaroux

Jean Ittah

Connector includes a housing member to which is articulated a locking lever having a holding bar held in a locked position by a latch. An abutment is provided against which the corresponding edge of the lever bears in the locked position. This edge is in the form of an elastic tongue.

Connector having a locking lever

An electrical connector includes a locking key having branches that slide in a female housing member. The branches include ramps to receive studs on a male housing member. The edge of the branches includes a strip with a lug engaged in an opening in the member which has a tongue with a protuberance on it to immobilize the lug in the opening when the key is in a ready position and which can be retracted when the key is pushed towards a locked position.

Electrical connectors

Electrical connector assembly comprising a first housing member and a second housing member complementary to the first housing member, the second housing member having a series of passages in each of which a female electrical contact member is inserted. The first housing member includes a series of passages each adapted to receive a male electrical contact member, with the male electrical contact member having a contact part adapted to be inserted into a corresponding female contact member of the second housing member, a body including notches and elements for fixing an electrical conductor. The first housing member includes a face and a second projection on the face adapted to face towards the second housing member. The locking key is mounted on the first housing member on the side of the face adapted to face towards the second complementary housing member and includes a series of slots through which the contact parts of the male electrical contact members and an inclined resilient strip pass and near which an opening is provided for the second projection. The second housing member is provided with a housing adapted to receive the second projection, and the resilient strip is mounted so that in the pre-locked position of the key the resilient strip opposes engagement of the second projection in the housing whereas in the locked position of the key the second projection cooperates with the resilient strip to retract the resilient strip so that the second projection can be engaged to assemble the housing members.

An electrical connection housing member comprises a body with passages and a retaining lug for an electrical contact member. The body includes slideways with detents for receiving a locking member which has an end wall and locking bars which cooperate with the detents and steps to lock the resilient lugs.

Electrical connector housing member

Electrical connector casings comprising a female casing member and a male casing member the male casing member, wherein includes an inclined elastic bar fastened at a point partway along its length to an abutment and the female casing member has a passage adapted to receive the elastic bar. Partway along the length of this passage is a projection on the path of the abutment and having, on the side facing the opening of the female casing member, a steep edge joining at right angles to a part joining at right angles a .retaining steep edge which, with the abutment, locks the two casing members together.

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St-Germain-en-Laye, France

Thierry Badaroux