Electrical connector for flexible flat cable

Claim 1

An electrical connector for a flexible flat cable comprising a connector housing having a plurality of terminals arranged therein at predetermined intervals parallel to one another, and a connector cover removably mounted on said connector housing and having a pressure blade capable of being inserted into a space defined between an undersurface of an upper wall of said connector housing and a contact portion of each terminal, said flexible flat cable having a plurality of flat conductors arranged thereon at the predetermined intervals parallel to one another designed to be inserted through an insertion port of said connector cover into said space, said pressure blade of the connector cover being laterally moveable into a completely inserted position within said space so that said pressure blade of the connector cover displaces each terminal, thereby resiliently holding said flat conductors on said cable between said contact portion of each terminals and said blade and electrically connecting said flat conductors and in said contact portions of said terminals, characterized in that; said flexible flat cable is processed to have a lock hole between said flat conductors thereon; a lock plate having a projection on a free end thereof is mounted between said terminals in said connector housing so that said projection of said lock plate is fit into said lock hole of said flexible flat cable at said completely inserted position; and a support blade mounted at the position under said pressure blade of said connector cover and at the same level as that of said lock plate for abutting and preventing the downward deflection of said lock plate at said completely inserted position.