Derrick A Dieterle

US Patent:

20080139034, Jun 12, 2008

Filed:

Dec 6, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/634215

Inventors:

Derrick Dieterle - Brighton MI, US
Ping Chen - West Bloomfield MI, US

Assignee:

J.S.T. Corporation - Farmington Hills MI

International Classification:

H01R 13/629
H01R 12/00

US Classification:

439352, 439 761

Abstract:

A connector position assurance apparatus includes a header part, an electrically-conductive element connected to the header part and a connector part. As the connector part is received by an interior connector-receiving chamber of the header part, a pair of polarity tabs contact an electrical contact portion of the electrically-conductive element causing the electrical contact portion to move from a relaxed state to a stressed state while a latch member slides onto and over a catch projecting from the header part causing the latch member to pivotably move from a relaxed condition to a flexed condition and then back to the relaxed condition again when a catch-receiving chamber formed in the latch member receives the catch thereby releasably locking the connector part and the header part together while the pair of polarity tabs retain the electrical contact portion in the stressed state.