Abstract: A rear holder for retaining a terminal in a terminal accommodating chamber of a connector housing with a wire secured to the terminal extending in a rearward direction of the connector housing. The rear holder includes a fitting member having a slit formed therein; a wire clamping member which is integral with the fitting member, the wire clamping member defining a wire insertion hole therein which is continuous with the slit; and locking members for locking the fitting member to the connector housing. The wire is insertable into the slit such that the wire can be retained in the wire insertion hole and the wire clamping member is flexible to allow relative movement thereof with respect to the fitting member when the wire is bent. Therefore, the bend in the wire has a relatively large radius of curvature so that the wire will not break. The wire clamping member includes a pair of spaced arcuate members which together define the wire insertion hole.

Abstract: A connector which includes a female housing and a corresponding male housing. The female housing has a bar code configuration printed on its outer circumferential wall. A single slit is pierced through the circumferential wall of the female housing within an area of a single bar contained in the bar code configuration. The slit's position corresponds to the point where the leading end of the male housing reaches when it achieves a complete fit with the female housing. The part of the male housing which, when in the complete fit position, corresponds to the slit's position should be the same color as was the area of the female housing's wall that was displaced by the slit.