Patent ID: 7758372

Claim:
A connector designed to be fitted to a multi-conductor cable and which comprises a cable grip, a socket and assembly means wherein the socket is equipped with a plurality of internal contacts and has a connector face designed to accommodate a multi-conductor removable plug, wherein the grip forms a stack with the socket and comprises a portion that is connected to the socket, a free portion, a rack held on one of the free and connected portions, possibly a counter-rack held on the other one of the free and connected portions, and a plurality of self-stripping electrical contacts held by one of the free and connected portions, wherein the free portion has an passage designed to allow the cable to pass in a longitudinal axis and is articulated on the connected portion around a first articulation axis to permit selectively the opening or closing of the grip, wherein the rack has notches, each of which is dimensioned to hold a corresponding insulated conductor of the cable, wherein each of the self-stripping contacts is electrically connected with a corresponding internal contact of the socket and is adapted to accommodate and strip, during a phase where the connector is assembled, including the closing of the grip, a corresponding insulated conductor of the cable, and the assembly means which provide, in the assembled configuration of the connector, a reversible attachment of the free the free and connected portions of the grip, characterised in that the assembly means comprise a second articulation axis and a lever, in that the second articulation axis is held by the socket and distant from the first articulation axis along the longitudinal axis and/or transversally to the longitudinal axis, and in that the lever has a first end that is articulated around the second articulation axis and a second end, distant from the first and curved, wherein the free portion of the grip has an external surface that is conformed into a slope to transform, in the assembly phase, a rotational torque applied to the lever around the second articulation axis into a thrust force from the curved end of the lever which solicits the grip when closing.