Patent ID: 7540759

Claim:
A terminating device comprising: a base; at least one pair of insulation displacement contacts disposed within the base; a wire engagement member for engaging at least one conductive wire in a corresponding one of the insulation displacement contacts; a protective sealing gel encapsulating the at least one pair of insulation displacement contacts, the gel having a dynamic crossover point expressed in rad/sec, and a dynamic storage modulus G′ and a dynamic loss modulus G″ expressed in dynes/cm 2 ; and wherein at any temperature between about −40° C. and about 80° C. the dynamic crossover point of the gel is between about 1 rad/sec and about 20 rad/sec, the dynamic loss modulus G″ is greater than the dynamic storage modulus G′ at a shear frequency greater than the dynamic crossover point and the dynamic loss modulus G″ is less than the dynamic storage modulus G′ at a shear frequency less than the dynamic crossover point.