Patent ID: 11876316
Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A connector assembly, comprising:
a connector including a housing having a contact receiving passageway extending through a mating end of the housing in a longitudinal direction and a contact disposed in the contact receiving passageway, the housing has a window extending through a lateral side wall of the housing in a width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the contact has:
a mating section disposed at the mating end;
a flange in the mating section, the flange bent perpendicular to a beam of the contact; and
a contact section extending from the mating section; and

a cable disposed in the housing, the cable has an insertion end disposed in the contact section and includes a lateral edge visible from an area exterior of the housing through the window after the cable is in a fully inserted position in the contact, the fully inserted position is one of a plurality of positions between a minimum inserted position and a maximum inserted position of the cable along the longitudinal direction, the cable is capable of forming a complete electrical and mechanical connection with the contact section in all fully inserted positions between the minimum inserted position and the maximum inserted position, the cable abuts an end of the flange in the maximum inserted position.