US 11,855,372 B2
Connector and connector assembly
Daiki Tanaka, Yamato (JP); and Naoto Sasayama, Yamato (JP)
Assigned to Molex, LLC, Lisle, IL (US)
Filed by Molex, LLC, Lisle, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/485,519.
Application 17/485,519 is a continuation of application No. 16/857,185, filed on Apr. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,158,968.
Claims priority of application No. JP2019-088277 (JP), filed on May 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0013941 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 12/71 (2011.01); H01R 13/516 (2006.01); H01R 13/631 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 12/716 (2013.01) [H01R 13/516 (2013.01); H01R 13/631 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector comprising:
a connector body
including first and second mating guide parts formed on opposite longitudinal ends thereof, each mating guide part having side wall parts coupled together by an end wall part which define a mating recess, the mating recesses being configured to receive counterpart mating guide parts formed at opposite longitudinal ends of a counterpart connector body of a counterpart connector;
a reinforcing bracket attached to the first mating guide part, the reinforcing bracket including first and second connection arms which are connected to each other, each connection arm including a side plate part extending at least partially through the respective side wall part of the first mating guide part thereby being positioned within a slit-shaped intermediate recess of the respective side wall part of the first mating guide part, wherein an inner part of the respective side wall part extends along an inner side of the respective slit-shaped intermediate recess and is proximate to the mating recess of the first mating guide part and an outer part of the respective side wall part extends along an outer side of the respective slit-shaped intermediate recess; and
a terminal attached to the connector body.