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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2022
Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
Te Connectivity Services Gmbh, Schaffhausen, CH;
Te Connectivity Italia Distribution S.r.l., Turin, IT;
Yongjia (Winter) Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Liang Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Subhash Maheshbabu, Bangalore, IN;
Federico Lupo, Turin, IT;
Hongbo (Daniel) Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Shanghai, CN;
TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Schaffhausen, CH;
TE Connectivity Italia Distribution S.R.L., Turin, IT;
Abstract
A connector includes a housing having a latch and a terminal mounted in the housing. The terminal has a locking hole with a locking hole front portion in a terminal insertion direction along which the terminal is inserted into the housing and a locking hole rear portion in the terminal insertion direction. A size of the locking hole front portion is larger than a size of the locking hole rear portion. The latch elastically protrudes into the locking hole to lock the terminal in the housing. The latch has a latch front portion in the terminal insertion direction and a latch rear portion in the terminal insertion direction. A size of the latch front portion is larger than a size of the latch rear portion. The size of the latch rear portion is smaller than the size of the locking hole front portion.