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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
May. 19, 2000
Satoru Nishide, Yokkaichi, JP;
Osamu Ito, Yokkaichi, JP;
Hajime Kawase, Yokkaichi, JP;
Takahiro Yoneda, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A connector is provided to clear a shorted state of a shorting terminal without using a clearing rib. The connector includes female and male housings,A slider,assembled into the male housing,is moved backward by elastic restoring forces of elastically contracted coil springs when female and male housings,are properly connected and a locking claw,of a lock arm,is disengaged from a locking surface,By integrally assembling a shorting terminal,into the slider,the shorting terminal,can be moved automatically from a shorting position where contact portions,of the shorting terminal,are held in contact with male terminal fittings,to short them to a clearing position where the contact portions,are not in contact with the male terminal fittings