US 7,601,035 B2
Connector
Toshiharu Takahashi, Makinohara (Japan); and Kazuto Ohtaka, Makinohara (Japan)
Assigned to Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Oct. 03, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/245,310.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-260472 (JP), filed on Oct. 04, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2009/0093168 A1, Apr. 09, 2009
Int. Cl. H01R 13/40 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—733.1 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A connector, comprising:
a housing having an opening through which a terminal receiving chamber is exposed to the exterior;
a lance projecting into said terminal receiving chamber and disposed flush with a wall surface having said opening before the insertion of a terminal into said terminal receiving chamber, and retracted from said terminal receiving chamber to project from said wall surface when said lance is pressed by said terminal inserted into said terminal receiving chamber; and
a detection member mounted on said housing to cover said lance so as to move along the wall surface of said housing having said opening, the movement of said detection member being limited by said lance projecting from said wall surface.