| 摘要 |
Disclosed herein are coupling and connecting devices that include confronting opposite side walls engagable with opposing outwardly biased leaf springs, wherein the side walls and leaf springs further include pawls engagable into opposing pawl catches. In one embodiment, the invention is directed to a coupler that comprises a receptacle and a complementary plug (meaning that the plug is insertable into the receptacle). The receptacle includes confronting opposite side walls that define a plug space therebetween, wherein each side wall includes a laterally inwardly directed first connector component. The plug has opposite sides, wherein each side has a laterally outwardly directed second connector component. One of the first and second connector components is a pawl and the other is a pawl catch. In addition, the insertion of the plug into the receptacle will move the pawls past the pawl catches and into a position in which the pawls and pawl catches mate and together resist unintended removal of the plug away from the receptacle. The opposite sides of the plug are in the nature of laterally outwardly biased leaf springs adapted to bias the pawls into the pawl catches. The leaf springs are movable together for removing the pawls from the pawl catches and allowing the plug to be withdrawn from the receptacle.
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