Patent ID: 6935886

Claim:
A plug connector ( 1 ) comprising a housing ( 2 ), in which an insulating member ( 3 ) containing electrical contact elements ( 4 ), for example contact pins or contact sockets, is arranged, the contact elements ( 4 ) in a use position being connected to individual wires or strands of an electrical cable ( 6 ), which in the use position is arranged at an axial distance from the insulating member ( 3 ), the housing ( 2 ) of the plug connector ( 1 ) having a counter-thread ( 8 ) for a clamping nut, particularly a union nut ( 9 ), cooperating with a clamping member ( 7 ), wherein the insulating member ( 3 ) and the clamping member ( 7 ) are connected by at least one spacer ( 10 ) and laterally of the spacer a radially open interspace remains free between the insulating member ( 3 ) and the clamping member ( 7 ).