Tri-lead cable connector

Claim 1

An electrical connector assembly for terminating multi-conductor cable with contacts enabling electrical connection with other electrical terminating means comprising: a connector housing having first and second mating housing members of substantially rigid first insulator material, said mating members together defining therebetween at least first and second contact receiving cavities and at least one cable receiving recess, and at least one integral stud on each said housing member; hinge means joining said housing members together and comprising a web of flexible second insulator material having a plurality of apertures therein, said studs of said mating housing members passing through said apertures and being bonded thereto thereby forming an integral housing assembly; latching means integral with said housing members spaced remote from said hinge means and adapted to detachably secure said mating members together in a closed condition; a first contact having an insulation piercing conductor engaging portion and a matable portion, said first contact being received in said first cavity of said first housing member with said conductor engaging portion directed toward the second of said housing members, a second contact having an insulation piercing conductor engaging portion and a matable portion, said second contact being received in the second cavity of said housing member with said conductor engaging portion directed towards the first of said housing members; and said at least one cable receiving recess having a transverse profile defined by at least two members fitting together in an interdigitated fashion whereby adjacent conductors of a cable inserted therein will be displaced in opposite directions into two parallel spaced planes and be driven into engagement with the conductor engaging portions of the respective contacts.