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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1999
Naoto Taguchi, Shizuoka, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A connector fitting construction in which a half-fitted condition is positively prevented when fitting a pair of female and male connectors together, and a connector-inserting force, required for the fitting operation, can be reduced. In this connector fitting construction, one of the two connectors has a slider receiving portion ( ), formed by an exclusive-use housing ( ), and has a lock arm ( ) on which a lock beak ( ), having a slanting surface, is formed. A slider ( ) has a pair of abutment projections ( ) formed on a lower surface of a slider body ( ), and a slide groove ( ). The abutment projections ( ) can be received respectively in side spaces ( ) provided respectively at opposite sides of the lock arm ( ) within the slider receiving portion ( ). The lock beak ( ) can be fitted in the slide groove ( ). Notches ( ) for allowing a temporary upward movement of a front end portion ( ) of the slider body ( ) are formed in the exclusive housing ( ), and a forwardly downwardly-slanting surface is formed on a front edge ( ) of each notch ( ).