Patent ID: 7255590

Claim:
A plug connector device ( 10 ) for multicore flat cables ( 15 ) including a plug ( 11 ) which can be fixed to one end of a flat cable and including a plug socket ( 12 ) through which a flat cable ( 15 ) can extend with contact elements of the plug and plug socket ( 12 ) having mating ends engaging each other, and with said contact elements of said plug and plug socket having termination ends connected to the flat cables using IDC technology, wherein: said plug ( 11 ) has a plug housing ( 21 ) formed of an integral quantity of elastomer and has a base ( 22 ) and a narrower plug part ( 23 ) opposite it, and the base ( 22 ) at one of its ends ( 14 ) has an elongated blind hole recess ( 26 ) for inserting one end of a flat cable ( 15 ), the plug part ( 23 ) having insertion receptacles ( 29 ) for the contact elements ( 18 ) that extends from the base part in a direction perpendicular to the direction of elongation of the blind hole recess in the base ( 22 ).