Patent ID: 7722410

Claim:
A plug for terminating a cable having at least one twisted pair of insulated conductors, comprising: (a) a housing having a cavity therein; (b) contacts for connection to the conductors and for connection to a socket into which the plug is to be received; and (c) a wire holder receivable into the cavity and having conductor-receiving paths extending there through for arranging the conductors between a first position where they are twisted and a second position at which they are untwisted and at which they are to be connected to the contacts, the wire holder comprising a base portion at said second position, the base portion having, for each conductor, conductor-receiving paths lying in a substantially single plane, and at least one wire-deflecting surface such that when the conductors are inserted into said paths, the conductors are forced to follow different directions, some following a linear path and others following a non-linear path to lie in a plane different from that of the linear path conductors.