The Whitaker Corporation

Thierry Mezin

Jean-Pierre Picaud

Lothar Andreas Post

Jorg Kunze

Dieter Lietz

Lukas Pniak-Pawlik

A connector assembly having a trough-shaped accommodating part and a plug part which can be plugged into the latter where the plug part has an essentially rectangular cross-section and in the vicinity of the two end edges, a safety rib extends in the plugging direction outward therefrom in such a way that the width the respectively opposite safety ribs is greater than the width of the basic plug part and the accommodating part has a plug channel with safety grooves for accommodating the safety ribs in the longitudinal side walls such that the plug part is receivable therein, the plug part having a surrounding housing and a socket housing that can be telescopically pushed into the surrounding housing through an insertion opening on a transverse side surface and complementary latching structure is provided on the surrounding housing and on the socket housing, for the purpose of latching the socket housing in the surrounding housing where the safety ribs are fitted to the socket housing or the surrounding housing on the side with the insertion opening.

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Houilles, France

Thierry Mezin