CONNECTOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a relaying connector composed by increasing retention strength of a connection object such as a flexible member to the connector, and thereby capable of preventing the connection object from being separated from the connector by careless force, for instance, by pulling the connection object. SOLUTION: This connector 101 includes contacts 21, a housing 20 holding the contacts 21, an operation member 20 pressing the connection object 50 toward the contacts 21, and a lock member 10 for locking the operation member 20. The operation member 20 is held to the housing 20 movably between a position where the connection object 50 is connected to the contacts 21 and a non-connection position. The lock member 10 has a lock part for locking the movement of the operation member 20 and is held to the housing 20 movably between a lock position and a non-lock position. The connector 101 catches the connection object 50 between the lock part and the operation member 30 by bending the connection object 50 when connected to the connection object 50. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI