Patent ID: 6398586
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A combination of a connector and a cable, where said cable has a cable axis and said cable includes a jacket assembly and a plurality of wires lying within said jacket assembly, with a front portion of said jacket assembly removed to expose wire front portions, wherein each wire front portion has a front end, and said connector includes a primarily insulative body and a plurality of contacts mounted in said body, each uncovered wire front portion extending to one of said contacts and each contact connected to said front end of one of said wire front portions, including:a flexible polymer overmold that is molded around most of the lengths of said wire front portions, said overmold being elongated parallel to said cable axis and being bendable; said wire front portions are twisted at least one-half turn about said cable axis, with said overmold being molded about said wire front portions after said wire front portions have been twisted.