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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2011
Daisuke Shinkawa, Makinohara, JP;
Tomihiko Nagayoshi, Kikugawa, JP;
Daisuke Shinkawa, Makinohara, JP;
Tomihiko Nagayoshi, Kikugawa, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A connectorincluding a flexible engagement piecewhich has a base end supported like a cantilever in a terminal accommodation chamberfor accommodating a terminal fitting and is thus deformable elastically, and has a free endwith which the terminal fitting to be inserted into the terminal accommodation chamberis engaged, wherein the flexible engagement piecehaving a beakformed on the free endto be engaged with the terminal fitting takes a shape of an inclined surfacehaving a height of a top portionincreased gradually from the free endtoward the base end in such a manner that a maximum shear area is obtained by a shear force of the terminal fitting.