US 12,374,827 B2
Electrical connector having a latching slider
John Marsh, Swindon (GB); Vinayakumar Shettar, Middletown, PA (US); and Ramesh S, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions Gmbh, Schaffhausen (CH); and Tyco Electronics UK Ltd, Swindon (GB)
Filed by TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/895,278.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/332,506, filed on Apr. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0335947 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/631 (2006.01); H01R 12/70 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 13/631 (2013.01) [H01R 12/7005 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector comprising:
a housing having walls forming a cavity configured to receive a mating electrical connector, the walls including a base wall, a first side wall at a first side, a second side wall at a second side, a first end wall at a first end, and a second end wall at a second end, the base wall provided at a rear of the housing, the base wall including contact channels, the first side wall including a slider slot open to the cavity;
contacts held in the contact channels, the contacts having mating ends configured to be mated with the mating electrical connector; and
a slider coupled to the first side wall of the housing and actuated from the first side of the housing, the slider received in the slider slot and movable in a sliding direction within the slider slot, the slider including a slider post extending into the cavity and movable within the cavity as the slider moves in the sliding direction, the slider post configured to be received in a guide track of the mating electrical connector to locate the mating electrical connector within the cavity of the housing.