US 11,799,241 B2
Electrical connector with locking spring
Xavier Rouillard, Pontoise (FR); Olivier Pamart, Pontoise (FR); and Steven Lord, Pontoise (FR)
Assigned to Tyco Electronics France SAS, Pontoise (FR)
Filed by Tyco Electronics France SAS, Pontoise (FR)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/487,094.
Claims priority of application No. 2010013 (FR), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0102915 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/64 (2006.01); H01R 13/627 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/64 (2013.01) [H01R 13/6273 (2013.01); H01R 2201/26 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector, comprising:
a housing formed in a single piece and including a recess;
a compression spring disposed in the recess, the compression spring is unloaded in a plugged-in position of the electrical connector into a mating connector along a plug-in direction, the compression spring opposes plugging of the electrical connector into the mating connector in a loaded state of the compression spring; and
a position assurance element having a head disposed in the recess and inserted through a first end of the compression spring, the position assurance element is displaceable in the plug-in direction when the electrical connector is plugged into the mating connector from a delivery position toward the plugged-in position, the first end of the compression spring exerts a force only on the position assurance element, the position assurance element exerts a force on the single piece housing, a second end of the compression spring opposite the first end along a longitudinal axis of the compression spring exerts a force only on the recess of the housing.