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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1998
Kimihiro Abe, Shizuoka, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A combined connector in which a plurality of connector housings each including a plurality of terminal storage chambers therein are piled up on top of another and secured to one another in multiple stages in the vertical direction. In the combined connector, first securing projecting portions are provided in one of the mutually opposing upper and lower stage side connector housings arranged in the vertical direction, first securing recessed portions, into which the first securing projecting portions can be fitted, are provided in the other, second securing projecting portions and second securing recessed portions, into which the second securing projecting portions can be fitted, are respectively provided in a direction crossing at right angles to the first securing projecting and recessed portions, and introducing portions are provided in at least one of the first and second securing projecting portions.