Patent ID: 7850485

Claim:
Plug connector ( 1 ) comprising a housing ( 2 ) that is arranged in a position of use in or at an opening ( 3 ) in a plate ( 4 ) or passes through the opening and contains wires or braids of a cable ( 5 ) and electrical contacts, the plug connector ( 1 ) is mountable in a front-plate assembly or in a back-plate assembly, in a region of the opening ( 3 ) of the plate ( 4 ) by a flange ( 6 ), and the flange ( 6 ) is formed as a flange plate that is positionable at a later time on an outside of the housing ( 2 ) of the plug connector ( 1 ), and includes an inner recess ( 7 ) with an inner periphery ( 8 ) for gripping around the housing ( 2 ) of the plug connector ( 1 ), the flange plate ( 6 ) has a one-part construction and a slot ( 9 ) or a break extends continuously outward from the inner recess ( 7 ), the inner periphery ( 8 ) of the inner recess ( 7 ) of the flange plate ( 6 ) can be reduced by narrowing the slot ( 9 ) or the break, and clamping element is provided with which the flange plate ( 6 ) can be mounted through reduction of the inner periphery ( 8 ) to an outside of the housing ( 2 ) of the plug connector ( 1 ), and the flange plate ( 6 ) comprises a polygonal flange or square flange having corner regions ( 6 a ) with openings or perforations arranged parallel to the inner recess ( 7 ) for attachment elements or screws ( 12 ) and the slot ( 9 ) or the break is arranged in a corner region ( 6 a ) without an attachment perforation or adjacent to an attachment perforation ( 13 ) at a position that has a greater radial dimension than a middle between two corner regions ( 6 a ) of the flange plate ( 6 ).