US 11,699,876 B2
Connector with lever and guide surfaces
Junya Matsuura, Mie (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., Mie (JP)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,307.
Claims priority of application No. JP2021-012678 (JP), filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0247124 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/629 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/62933 (2013.01) [H01R 13/62977 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector, comprising:
a connector body including a guide portion; and
a lever including a guide receiving portion for contacting the guide portion, the lever being operated to connect the connector to a mating connector,
wherein:
the lever is rotatable about a rotary shaft with respect to the connector body to a guide start position where guide by the guide portion is started and a guide end position where the guide by the guide portion is ended,
at least one of the guide portion and the guide receiving portion arcuately extends with the rotary shaft as a center,
the guide receiving portion contacts the guide portion with a larger contact pressure when the lever is at the guide end position than when the lever is at the guide start position,
one of the guide portion and the guide receiving portion has a first guide surface in contact with or facing the other at the guide start position, a second guide surface arranged at a position more away from the rotary shaft than the first guide surface and in contact with the other at the guide end position, and a third guide surface obliquely connected to the first and second guide surfaces,
the one of the guide portion and the guide receiving portion includes a projection on the second guide surface,
the other includes a recess to be fit to the projection at the guide end position, and
the recess is in contact with the projection on both sides in a rotating direction of the lever when viewed from a direction parallel to an axis of the rotary shaft.