Patent ID: 7160155

Claim:
A connecting device for electrical connection of contact pins which protrude from an axial opening of a sleeve-type housing, comprising: a device body with an insertion section extending therefrom and configured for axial introduction into the axial opening; the device body having openings for the contact pins to pass therethrough and having a contact surface arranged laterally offset from the insertion section and extending from the device body, the device body contact surface configured to interoperate with a corresponding contact surface of the housing to provide torsional stability; the contact surface of the connecting device having a plastically deformable contact surface projection configured to interoperate with the corresponding contact surface of the housing; and the insertion section comprising a cylindrical surface having a circumference on which one or more centering projections, projecting radially from the area of the cylindrical surface are provided, arranged at intervals from one another around the circumference of the cylindrical surface.