Patent ID: 8137097

Claim:
A connection system ( 36 ) electrically linking a heater ( 22 ) for a hot runner nozzle ( 10 ) to at least one hookup conductor ( 32 ) linked to a power source, the heater ( 22 ) is mounted on a substrate, said connection system ( 36 ) comprising a hookup body ( 38 ; 60 ; 70 ) which is made of an electrically non-conducting material, which has four side faces ( 44 ), an upper side face ( 42 ) and a lower side face ( 40 ), and which has at least one passage ( 46 ) designed to receive the at least one hookup conductor ( 32 ), in a specified state of the connection system, the lower side face ( 40 ) of the hookup body ( 38 , 60 , 70 ) is facing the heater ( 22 ); and in the specified state, the hookup conductor ( 32 ) is terminated in said lower side face ( 40 ) of the hookup body ( 38 ; 60 ; 70 ) facing the heater ( 22 ), the hookup body ( 38 ; 60 ; 70 ) is affixable to or on said substrate so that, in the specified state, the at least one hookup conductor ( 32 ) passing through the at least one passage ( 46 ) shall make contact by their free ends with the heater ( 22 ), wherein the lower side face ( 40 ) of the hookup body ( 38 ; 60 ; 70 ) facing the heater ( 22 ) is fitted with at least one recess ( 48 ) which is designed to receive one bent free end segment of a hookup conductor ( 32 ).