Patent ID: 7347738

Claim:
A low profile electrical connector assembly comprising: a connector base and a plurality of terminals that are attached to the respective ends of a plurality of insulated electric cables, the terminals and the ends of the insulated electric cables being disposed in topless slots of the connector base that are closed by a bottomless connector cover that is attached to the connector base, each of the terminals having a contact at one end, a medial portion having a retention slot, and an attachment portion at an opposite end, the connector base having a transverse groove that extends through sidewalls of the topless slots with selected ones of the sidewalls having undercuts for retaining the bottomless connector cover, the bottomless connector cover having a depending lock bar disposed in the transverse groove and extending through the retention slots to retain the terminals in a longitudinal direction, and the depending lock bar having a lip cooperating with the undercuts of the connector base and a lower ledge of the cover cooperating with a bottom face groove of the connector base to hold the connector cover down on the topless slots.