Patent ID: 6068504
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electrical cable connector for insulated, multiconductor cable, the cable including a plurality of wires, each of the wires having an axial in a first direction and a conductive core extending in the first direction, the conductive core being surrounded by an insulative covering, the connector comprising:a connector housing having a mating face for mating with a complementary connector component, and a terminating face that receives said cable thereon in an orientation for termination, said connector housing having a plurality of terminal-receiving passages extending through said connector housing between said connector housing two faces,a plurality of conductive terminals disposed in the terminal-receiving passages in distinct first second and third arrays of terminals, said terminals in said first and second arrays each having an elongated mating portion that is associated with said connector housing mating face and an insulation displacement portion that is associated with said connector housing terminating face,said terminals of said third terminal array each having an elongated mating portion that is associated with said connector housing mating face and an insulation displacement portion that is associated with said connector housing terminating face, selected insulation displacement portions of said third terminal array being axially aligned with selected insulation displacement portions of either of said first and second terminal arrays, to thereby permit dual termination of selected single conductors of said cable to different terminals in at least two of said three terminal arrays;said mating portions of said third terminal array being disposed along one side of said centerline of said connector housing mating face and said mating portions of said first and second terminal arrays being disposed along said connector housing mating face on an opposite side of said mating face centerline, certain of said first and second terminal array terminals being flanked on opposite sides by terminals of said first and second terminal array terminals aligned with said third terminal array terminals so as to electrically isolate said first and second terminal array remaining terminals when said cable wires are terminated to said insulation displacement portions of said first, second and third terminal arrays.