US 7,431,596 B2
Connector assembly with mold removal hole
Yukihiro Fukatsu, Yokkaichi (Japan); Toshikazu Sakurai, Yokkaichi (Japan); Youjirou Hashimoto, Yokkaichi (Japan); Yasushi Okayasu, Yokkaichi (Japan); and Masaya Horiuchi, Yokkaichi (Japan)
Assigned to Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 08, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/636,342.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-355020 (JP), filed on Dec. 08, 2005; and application No. 2006-052592 (JP), filed on Feb. 28, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0134994 A1, Jun. 14, 2007
Int. Cl. H01R 13/62 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—157  [439/347; 439/752] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector, comprising:
a first housing and a second housing having a receptacle for receiving the first housing, the first housing being formed with at least one escaping groove extending substantially in forward and backward directions;
a movable member having at least one cam groove and movably mountable into a movable member insertion hole extending at an angle to connecting directions of the first and second housings;
at least one follower pin projecting in from an inner peripheral surface of the receptacle and movable forward along the escaping groove and along the cam groove when the first and second housings are connected;
at least one mold removal hole formed in a wall of the receptacle to mold the follower pin;
a mold removal space defined between the follower pin and the mold removal hole; and
the movable member including at least one resiliently deformable locking section, the locking section engaging the first housing to enable the movable member to be mounted in the first housing at a position so that the follower pin can enter the cam groove and being deformable during connection of the housings, and being resiliently restored into the mold removal space when the first and second housings are connected properly.