| 摘要 |
<p>To detect partial connection both during a connecting operation and during a separating operation. ÄSolutionÜ A lock arm 18 engageable with a female housing 30 to be fitted into a receptacle 11 of a male housing 10 projects into the receptacle 11. The lock arm 18 is so elastically deformable in a direction intersecting with a connecting direction of the housings 10, 30 as to be displaceable between an engaging position where it is engageable with a slider 51 assembled into the female housing 30 via compression coil springs 50 and a disengaging position where it is disengaged from the slider 51. If a connecting or separating operation is interrupted halfway, spring forces accumulated in the compression coil springs 50 elastically compressed by the slider 51 moved backward are released, whereby the slider 51 is biased forward and the lock arm 18 located in the engaging position is pushed to forcibly separate the housings 10, 30 from each other. <IMAGE></p> |
