Patent ID: 6257920
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector that includes a connector frame with an insulator and a plurality of contacts mounted on said insulator, where said connector is constructed to enable the locking of a cable to the connector frame, comprising:a clip that includes a sleeve with a longitudinal axis, said sleeve having a top, a bottom, and laterally opposite sides, said sleeve forming a passage along said axis and said cable extending along said axis through said sleeve;said sleeve having at least a first pair of vertical slots with at least one of said slots lying on each of said opposite sides;said sleeve is crimped around said cable, by said opposite sides being vertically compressed to form at least two wings at each of said sides where said wings project from said opposite sides with each pair of wings lying on the same one of said sides and with each pair of wings separated by one of said slots;said cable has a jacket with a front end and said cable has a plurality of wires extending generally forward from said jacket front end and connected to said contacts;a first polymer molded part that is molded around said wires and around a front end of said clip, with said molded part having clip-locking portions that lie in each of said first slots between two of said wings at each of said sides of said clip;said sleeve has two second slots with each second slot lying rearward of one of said first slots, and said sleeve forms two third wings lying behind said second slots; and includinga polymer overmold that is molded around said first polymer molded part, with said overmold having clip-locking portions that lie in said second slots.