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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tomomi Endo, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/3436 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/3436 ;
Abstract
A side spacer in a connector is attached by insertion to a housing body from a side thereof and a terminal abutting portion having an inclination angle &bgr; is formed in at least one side edge of a lance for temporarily retaining a terminal. The inclination angle &bgr; is set greater than an angle &agr; formed between an imaginary line connecting the corner portion of the upper surface at the tip end of a female terminal and the corner portion of the upper surface of a tentative retaining projection and the inserting direction of said terminal into the connector housing.