Self-stripping contact element for a connector

Claim 1

A contact element for connectors, for connecting wires covered by an insulating coating comprising: a front portion for ensuring contact with a complementary contact element belonging to another circuit; a rear portion for ensuring connection with one of said wires; said rear portion having a plurality of open slots of different widths for self stripping and connecting to said one of said wires by introduction of said one of said wires into said slots, said rear portion comprising successive first, second, and third parallel walls respectively having first, second, and third ones of said plurality of slots for respectively providing electrical connection, mechanical stability to axial stresses, and mechanical stability to radial stresses, said third slot having a top part for receiving said one wire and a wire holding part, said third slot having, for shaping said one of said wires, a shaping part having a width smaller than the diameter of said one of said wires, opening at opposite ends thereof into said holding part and said top portion, respectively, wherein the portions of the two sides of said third wall on opposite sides of the shaping part of said third slot partly overlap one another.