Patent ID: 6908346

Claim:
A connection system for connecting the four conductors of a quad cable to terminals, the system including a quad terminator having four quad contacts connected to the quad cable conductors, an insert that has an insulative insert frame with multiple rows and columns of frame passages that extend between opposite front and rear insert ends wherein the insert also has multiple double-ended insert contacts that each lies in one of said passages, wherein front ends of a plurality of said insert contacts are each connected to one of said terminals, and the system including a mounting shell that has a bay that receives the insert, the mounting shell having a rear bay end where said insert rear end is exposed wherein: said quad terminator has an insulator, said quad contacts have front ends projecting forward of said insulator, and said quad terminator is free of a main shield portion surrounding all four of said quad contact front ends so each contact front end can fit into the rear end of one of said frame passages and mate with one of said insert contacts; and including: a backshell adaptor that is fastenable to said mounting shell to lie at a rear end of said bay so a front of said backshell adaptor substantially abuts the insert rear end of the insert lying in the bay, said backshell adaptor having a bore that receives and removably retains said quad terminator, with the four quad contact front ends projecting from the front end of the backshell adaptor into a different one of four of said passages of said insert frame and mating with a rear end of a different one of said four insert contacts.