Sliding insert type connector with assisting slider

摘要

A slide member is slidable on a wall of one of female and male connector housings for an advancing travel and for a retreating travel and formed with an oblique cam element engageable with a cam follower on the other of the female and male connector housings, and drives in the advancing travel the other connector housing to be attracted for insertion to the one connector housing to couple the female and male connector housings with each other and in the retreating travel the female and male connector housings to be de-coupled from each other, and a sliding surface of the slide member with respect to the one connector housing has a raised part formed thereon, in a longitudinal direction thereof, to be brought into line contact with the one connector housing in the advancing travel of the slide member and in the retreating travel thereof.