Patent ID: 6997726

Claim:
A connector housing having a longitudinal axis, comprising: a first housing portion, having a front end face and a rear end; at least two accommodation chambers, extending parallel to the longitudinal axis and receiving respectively an electrical contact element, and having a connector tab, wherein the accommodation chambers have, respectively, an insertion opening for a mating contact element and an exiting opening for the connector tab, opening to the front end face; an elastic locking arm for each accommodation chamber for retaining the contact element in the accommodation chamber; a second housing portion, which is formed integrally with the first housing portion, and forms an accommodation chamber, into which a portion of a housing of a mating connector can be inserted, having mating contact elements, comprising female contact terminals, which, respectively, can be electrically connected to the contact elements; a short-circuit bridge, which is made from an electrically conductive material, retained in the first housing portion, comprises for each contact element an elastic contact arm, wherein the contact arms are connected to each other and serve to contact the connector tabs; and a front holder, which can be displaced between an initial position and a final position along the longitudinal axis, which holds in the initial position the contact arms in a lifted position and leaves the same in the final position unloaded, so that these can contact the connector tabs.