US 7,547,225 B2
Electrical connector assembly
Yoshifumi Suemitsu, Tokyo (Japan); Kazushige Sakamaki, Tokyo (Japan); and Hiroshi Kobayashi, Aichi (Japan)
Assigned to Tyco Electronics AMP K.K., Kanagawa-ken (Japan); and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-Ken (Japan)
Filed on May 30, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/755,279.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-155018 (JP), filed on Jun. 02, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0281512 A1, Dec. 06, 2007
Int. Cl. H01R 13/64 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—374  [439/680] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector assembly, comprising:
a first connector comprising a first housing, the first housing comprising:
a complementary connector receiving concavity;
a first contact attached to the first housing;
a first connector projection extending in a connector mating direction, the first connector projection formed on an inside of a lower wall and comprising a protruding part that is provided at the top of the first connector projection and that protrudes in a horizontal direction substantially perpendicular to the connector mating direction; and
a first connector concavity formed on an inside of a side wall of the complementary connector receiving cavity and extends in the connector mating direction and is recessed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the connector mating direction; and
a complementary connector that mates with the first connector, the complementary connector comprising a complementary housing received by the complementary connector receiving concavity, the complementary housing comprising:
a complementary contact attached to the complementary housing;
a groove formed in an undersurface of the complementary housing and having a cross-sectional shape that is complementary to a cross-sectional shape of the first connector projection and extending in the connector mating direction; and
a side projection provided on a side surface of the complementary housing and extending in the connector mating direction, the side projection having a cross-sectional shape that is complementary to a cross-sectional shape of the first connector concavity;
wherein displacement of the complementary housing with respect to the first housing in a vertical direction is restricted by the first connector projection being received in the groove and by the side projection being received in the first connector concavity.