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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2000
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Mie, JP;
Abstract
A lever-type electrical connector has connector housings and a lever rotatably mounted on a first connector housing. The lever has a cam track with an entrance end. A cam pin on the second connector housing enters the entrance end of the cam track when the connector housings are brought together with the lever in a waiting position, and by the interaction of the cam pin and the cam track, when thereafter the lever is rotated to a locking position, the connector housings are drawn together into a fully fitted conformation. At least one of the lever and the cam pin has an edge surface inclined with respect to the fitting direction whereby, when the lever is incorrectly located so that the pin is not received in the entrance end of said cam track, the lever and the pin interact at the inclined edge surface to prevent the lever from over-riding the pin.