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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1998
Shashidhar M Kamath, Belleville, MI (US);
Yazaki North America, Inc., Canton, MI (US);
Abstract
An electrical connector assembly includes a male connector body having a set of fixed male terminals and a female connector body having a set of female terminals having flexible, parallel contact arms. A pair of clamp bars are movably mounted to a housing which is attached to the female connector body so as to position the clamp bars adjacent the respective outer surfaces of the flexible arms. Actuation pins project from opposite ends of the clamp bars to engage channels in the housing and permit movement of the bars toward one another. The ends of the pins distal from the clamp bars project beyond the opposite ends of the housing so that they may engage cam slots formed on the male connector body as the bodies are inserted into mating engagement with one another. Movement of the male and female connectors into mating engagement inserts the male terminals between the contact arms of respective female terminals with no sliding contact therebetween until the last few millimeters of travel, at which point engagement between the clamp bar pins and the cam slots forces the clamp bars toward one another to urge the contact arms into contact with the male terminals.