Electrical connector with connector position assurance/assist device
CA 1290835 C · Owner: Penney, Janet S. · Inventors: Detter, Gary C.; Norling, Samuel A.; Tolnar, Emil J. Jr.
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Abstract of the Disclosure A connector device for electric circuit terminals includes mating male and female connectors one of which has resilient extended lock arm means that will lock behind a lock bar of a sized window of the other connector. When the two connectors are mated a, connector position assurance and assist device is inserted axially along a tracked slot and displaces the void between the sized window and under the extended lock arm means, with this device including releasable resilient lock tab means to retain it in operative engagement with the connectors. If the connectors are only partly interconnected, upon initially insertion of the connector position assurance and …
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- Granted October 15, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 15, 2008.
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