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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1997
Lothar Heinrich Nix, Morfelden-Walldorf, DE;
Franz-Josef Thiel, Weiterstadt, DE;
Konstantin Gossen, Pfungstadt, DE;
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
An electrical connector comprising a housing having a terminal receiving passageway extending therethrough, where the passageway includes an insertion portion having a longitudinal axis and a contact retaining portion having a longitudinal axis, the connector characterized in that the housing includes a first part having the insertion portion therein and a second part having the contact retaining portion therein, where the second part is displaceable between a first position where the longitudinal axes are offset from each other to a second position where the longitudinal axis coincide and where the terminals are insertable in the first position and retained in the second position. A position assurance feature for contact retaining members is also provided by cooperating camming features that assure assembly of the two parts is always in the first position.