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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2001
Yoshihiro Fukase, Shizuoka, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A connector comprises a male connector , a female connector to be fitted to this male connector , an elastic latching member , which is provided on an outer periphery of one of the male connector and the female connector and engages with the other connector to retain a fitted state of the connectors and , and a half-fitting prevention member for notifying a half-fitted state by detaching the male connector and the female connector when the connectors and are in a half-fitted state, and for preventing the half-fitted state from being retained. The half-fitting prevention member is placed at a height that is nearly equal to or less than a height of the elastic latching member which projects from an outer peripheral surface , thereabove.