Structure for locking electric connectors
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Nov 13, 2001
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Sep 11, 1998
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Sep 17, 1997
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Either of male and female connectors (1,2) fitting in or on each other has a housing (3) whose side face has a locking lug (5). The other connector has on a top of its housing (6) a lockable cantilever arm (13) corresponding to the lug, and a free end of the arm elastically deforming itself has a pawl (16) engageable with and disengageable from the lug (5). A tapered ridge (17) extends along and beside the arm (13) and is shaped such that its height gradually increases inwardly from the arm's portion near its basal end towards the free end of said arm. Any operator may insert a tool (30) having a flat and narrow bit in between the top (6a) of the other connector's housing (6) and the ridge (17), from this housing's side where the basal end is located so that the tool's bit will force outwards the free end of the arm (13) until its pawl (16) is disengaged and unlocked from the lug (5).
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