A connector (1) is provided with pressing portions (52C) for holding hooking portions (72) in a state butted against front locked portions (18A) and stopping a retainer (70) at an initial position in front when connection of a first housing (10) and a second housing (50) is started and allowing the hooking portions (72) to be disengaged from the front locked portions (18A) and making the retainer (70) movable from the initial position to a detection position when the connection of the first and second housings is completed, a lock arm (22) displaceable to a lock position for locking the first and second housings (10, 50) in a connected state by locking the second housing (50) and an unlock position for releasing the locking, and a holding portion (74) for suppressing a displacement of the lock arm (22) from the lock position to the unlock position in the connected state.

A split housing connector assembly provides integrated terminal position assurance and an independent secondary lock and includes a nosepiece and a rear housing. In a pre-lock configuration, a plurality of wire terminal bays are aligned to allow insertion of wire terminals and wherein in a locked configuration the rear housing is displaced relative to the nosepiece offsetting the wire terminal bays and blocking removal of the wire terminals. The rear housing engages the nosepiece along a cam track to guide relative movement during assembly.

A housing includes a plurality of cavities arranged in a width direction and housing-side engaging portions provided on both end sides in the width direction. A rear holder includes a plurality of insertion holes arranged in the width direction and communicating with the cavities, and holder-side engaging portions provided on both end sides in the width direction to contact the housing-side engaging portions. Terminals are connected to wires arranged from the insertion holes to the cavities. The housing-side engaging portions are arranged to cover the holder-side engaging portions from outside. A guide receiving portion extending in a front-rear direction is provided on an inner surface of the housing-side engaging portion. A guide portion extending in the front-rear direction and to be fit to the guide receiving portion is provided on an outer surface of the holder-side engaging portion.

A method for improving clearance and creepage in a male or female high voltage connector assembly using a male terminal position assurance (TPA) device. The high voltage connector assembly is suitable for high voltage electrical terminals. The method includes the steps of allowing a clearance and creepage or electrical path to extend from at least a high voltage electrical terminal to a conductive male outer housing, and or between another terminal using a male or a female TPA device. The TPA device is inserted in the high voltage connector assembly, whereby a clearance and creepage or electrical path extends from the high voltage electrical terminal along at least a surface of the TPA device and to the male outer housing of the high voltage connector assembly or from the high voltage electrical terminal to another high voltage electrical terminal in using the male and or female TPA device.

A connector 10 includes a connector body 20, a lever 90 rotatably supported on the connector body 20 and configured to properly connect the connector body 20 and a mating connector body 120 at a connection position, a detector portion 60 separate from the connector body 20 and to be fit to a mating detector portion 160 when the lever 90 is at the connection position, and a detection-side sealing portion 80 to be liquid-tightly arranged between the detector portion 60 and the mating detector portion 160. The detector portion 60 and the lever 90 include movement converting portions for converting a rotational movement of the lever 90 into a linear movement of the detector portion 60 with respect to the mating detector portion 120 by contacting each other.

A contact carrier retains a crimp contact inserted therein at a central collar of the crimp contact in a particularly stable manner and at the same time absorb the highest possible plugging forces. The contact carrier has an insulating body and a retaining plate, which can be mounted thereon on the connection side. Furthermore, the contact carrier has at least one detent element, which, in the unassembled state, can assumed both a position locking the plug contact and a position releasing the plug contact. The detent element is part of the insulating body. The retaining plate also has at least one blocking element, which, in the assembled state, fixes the detent element in the position thereof locking the plug contact and thus prevents the transition of the detent element from the locking position into the releasing position.

A female terminal 12 includes a terminal body 15 and a slider 16. The terminal body 15 includes an upper connecting piece 18A and a lower connecting piece 18B connected to a core wire 13 of an electric wire 11. The slider 16 is movable in a front-rear direction relative to the terminal body 15. The slider 16 includes an upper abutting portion 25A and a lower abutting portion 25B. The upper connecting piece 18A includes an upper protrusion 51A that abuts against the upper abutting portion 25A. The lower connecting piece 18B includes a lower protrusion 51B that abuts against the lower abutting portion 25B.

An electrical plug-in connector includes an internal conductor contact element, an external conductor contact element and an insulating protective element arranged between the internal conductor contact element and the external conductor contact element. The external conductor contact element may have a recess for providing an assembly access point for fastening the internal conductor contact element to an internal conductor of an electrical cable. The insulating protective element can be displaced between an assembly position, in which the assembly access point is cleared through the assembly recess to the internal conductor contact element, and an insulating protection position, in which the assembly access point to the internal conductor contact element is blocked by the insulating protective element.

A contact carrier retains a crimp contact inserted therein at a central collar of the crimp contact in a particularly stable manner and at the same time absorb the highest possible plugging forces. The contact carrier has an insulating body and a retaining plate, which can be mounted thereon on the connection side. Furthermore, the contact carrier has at least one detent element, which, in the unassembled state, can assumed both a position locking the plug contact and a position releasing the plug contact. The detent element is part of the insulating body. The retaining plate also has at least one blocking element, which, in the assembled state, fixes the detent element in the position thereof locking the plug contact and thus prevents the transition of the detent element from the locking position into the releasing position.

A connector includes a housing and a plate-shaped lever which is pivotably supported by the housing, wherein the housing includes a pair of wall sections opposed in a rotation axis direction of the lever, wherein one of the pair of wall sections includes a rotation shaft section protruding towards another of the pair of wall sections, wherein the rotation shaft section is provided in a flexible arm which is cut out from the one wall section, and wherein it is configured so that in a natural state of the flexible arm, the lever is pivotably supported by the rotation shaft section, wherein when the lever which is not mounted is inserted between the pair of wall sections and comes into contact with the rotation shaft section, the flexible arm is bent in a direction away from the another wall section with interposition of the one wall section.