Abstract: An electrical connector (10) comprising a first part (12) including a housing (16) having opposed side walls (18,20) each having an upper wall (24) and a lower wall (26) defining opposed slide surfaces (28) extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a mating axis (X), first and second spaced apertures (34,36) in the upper wall, a pair of spaced apertures (38) in the lower wall, and a longitudinally extending slot (66) in the upper wall; a slider (30,31) positioned adjacent each side wall, each slider having an upper edge (54) and a lower edge (50) making a sliding engagement with the slide surfaces of the upper wall and the lower wall, a pair of inclined cam surfaces (46) having openings (48) in the lower edge alignable with the apertures in the lower wall, and a resilient tab (52) in the upper edge for making a snap fit in the first aperture in the upper wall in a fully unmated position, or in the second aperture in a fully mated position; a substantially U-shaped lever (58) having a pair of arm

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical plug-and-socket connection comprising two detachable connecting parts, which, by means of a laterally extensible slide, both can be axially coupled together and decoupled. The one connecting part comprises a socket housing having control means. The other connecting part comprises a complementary plug housing having a laterally protruding coupling journal. The slide possesses a profiled coupling channel. In order to achieve a space-saving construction of the plug-and-socket connection, it is proposed to provide two different control means between the slide and the socket housing. The first control means is an axial control mechanism having an essentially linear groove in the socket housing and a radial bearing cam on the slide, which simultaneously determines the pivot bearing for a pivot motion of the slide.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting part of a two-part plug-and-socket connection, the housing of which has at least two axial housing chambers lying next to each other in pairs, between which there is an axial partition. The housing chambers serve respectively to receive electrical contact parts, which, in their defined end position, extend as far as a coupling portion of the housing, which can be plugged-in with a complementary coupling portion of the other connecting part forming part of the plug-and-socket connection. In order to obtain a space-saving connecting part in which a slide displaying blocking elements locks the inserted contact parts in their end position within the housing chambers, it is proposed to configure the slide from a detachable segment of the axial partition and to configure the blocking elements for the locking from radial projections on this partition element.