Electrical connector

Claim 1

An electrical cable connector comprising: a pair of elongated, generally rectangular insulating blocks adapted to be assembled in face-to-face relation along the length thereof; each of said blocks having a plurality of spaced, mutually parallel apertures extending therethrough perpendicular to its mating face and in axial alignment with apertures in the opposing block; the first of said Blocks having conductive female socket members fixedly disposed in said apertures, the open ends of said sockets being flush with the mating face of said first block and the opposite ends thereof being joined to exposed ends of individual insulated conductors of a first electrical cable; the second of said blocks having conductive male contact pin members fixedly disposed in said apertures with the pin portions thereof extending outward from the mating face of said second block and adapted for removable insertion in said socket members and the opposite ends thereof joined to exposed ends of individual conductors of a second electrical cable; each of said blocks being secured in a housing member having a flat face portion parallel to the mating face of one block and adapted to be secured in face-to-face relation with the housing member of the opposing block when said pins are inserted in said sockets and each housing member having an open-ended integral flange portion enclosing the periphery of its corresponding block; potting boots enclosing the open end of each of said flanged portions and sealed to the insulated conductors extending therethrough; a hermetic sealant filling substantially all of the void within each of said housing members; a hermetic seal disposed between said flat face portions of said housing members; and means for removably securing said flat face portions of said housing members together.