Patent ID: 6994595

Claim:
A connector comprising: a housing; one or more interface passages formed in the housing, each of the interface passages having an outer perimeter, wherein multiple portions of the outer perimeter are spaced in or spaced out from a portion of the outer perimeter adjacent each of the multiple portions; one or more mating interfaces adjacent the one or more interface passages, wherein each of the mating interfaces has an outer perimeter which has substantially the same shape as the outer perimeter of the adjacent one of the interface passages; one or more connector passages formed in the housing, each of the connector passages is connected to one of the interface passages; and an electrical contact is seated in each of the one or more interface passages, is spaced from an opening to each of the interface passages, and extends in to the connector passage, wherein the electrical contact is spaced in from an opening to the interface passage at a distance to prevent accidentally an electrical connection between the electrical contact and a conductor at the opening to the interface passage.