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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1997
Hiroshi Kitamura, Kanagawa, JP;
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A lever type connector has a lever (60) and a housing body (10) consisting of a main body (20) and a wire cover (40). The lever (60) has a pair of arms (65), and an operating part (66) which connects the arms (65) at one end. When the lever (60) is mounted on the housing body (10), the ribs (43) on the inclined parts (42) of the wire cover (40) engage with the arms (65) and act to spread the arms (65) outward. When the arms in this outward-spread state are moved over the posts (22) so that the arms reach positions directly above the posts (22), the arms undergo elastic recovery inward, and act to move the openings (62) into positions in the vicinity of the posts (22).