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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2017
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Jeffrey Scott Campbell, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Wesley W. Weber, Jr., Metamora, MI (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
An electrical connector including electrical terminals along with a connector housing defining a first and second cavity, the first and second cavities configured to receive the terminals. The connector housing further defines a third cavity extending along a lateral axis. The electrical connector includes a terminal position assurance (TPA) device received within the third cavity. The TPA device is moveable from an terminal insertion position to a terminal locking position. The TPA device has flexible first and second primary locking features and rigid first and second secondary locking features configured to engage locking features of the terminals. Only the first primary and first secondary locking features engage the locking surface of the first electrical terminal and only the second primary and second secondary locking features engage the locking surface of the second electrical terminal when the TPA device is in the terminal locking position.