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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1980
Filed:
May. 12, 1978
Richard L Marks, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Charles H Weidler, Lancaster, PA (US);
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Abstract
Multi-contact electric connector assembly comprises a connector plug and a connector receptacle. The connector receptacle has a hood extending forwardly from its mating face which surrounds the plug when the parts are mated. A latching means is provided on the receptacle in the form of flexible latch arms extending from the housing of the receptacle and projecting through an opening in the hood adjacent to the housing. The latch arms have a shoulder which engages complementary shoulders adjacent to the mating face of the connector plug. The plug is also provided with camming ramps adjacent to its mating face which cooperate with the latch arm on a terminal pin header when the connector plug is mated with the pin header. The camming ramps deflect the latch arm of the pin header away from the shoulders of the plug when the plug is mated with and disengaged from the pin header.