Cluster block housing and pin receptacle

Claim 1

A disengagable electrical connector for use with a plurality of closely spaced parallel contact pins disposed in a cup-like mounting member, said connector comprising: a unitary block of insulating material having a plurality of parallel cavities extending therethrough, each of said cavities being open at both ends and having a throat portion defined by a pair of side walls converging towards one another to merge with a pair of parallel walls which terminate in sharp shoulders extending transversely outwardly of the cavity, an abutment extending transversely across said cavity spaced from said shoulders, and a pin aperture formed in one wall of each cavity, a terminal connector received in each said cavity, each said connector having, from back to front, first and second ferrule portions adapted to be crimped onto electrical cable and a channel shaped receptacle portion including two spaced side walls resiliently integrally connected by one edge to a central web, an aperture in said central web, and a locking lance rigidly projecting from an upper portion of each side wall, each said lance projecting out of the plane of its corresponsing side wall and away from the other said side wall, said side walls of said connector located between said parallel walls of said housing as said locking lances abut said shoulders, retaining said connector in said housing, said pins adapted to engage with interference fit in opposing sides of said connector aperture and between the side walls of said receptacle portion.