Electrical assembly with cable guiding member

Claim 1

An electrical plug assembly comprising an insulated housing having a cable-receiving mouth opening to a rear end of the housing and communicating internally of the housing with a row of conductor-receiving pathways extending to a front end of the housing in alignment with respective terminals, a shield member of conductive material extending around the housing forwardly from the rear end to provide a substantially continuous shield around the mouth; a one-piece cable guide member of conductive material having front and rear ends between which extends a cable supporting base, cable locators upstanding from the base in spaced apart relation to locate between them an insulated conductor row and cable sheath extending between front and rear ends of the cable guide member and, shielding flanges upstanding from the base to extend along the rear end between opposite side edges of the base and the cable locators; whereby on loading a shielded cable into the guide member with an outer insulation sheath stripped cut back from a front end to expose the row of insulated conductors free of the shield with the cable located between the cable locators, the cable guide member can be inserted, front end leading, into the mouth, drawer fashion, as a sliding fit, guiding the conductors into respective ones of said pathways with the shield flanges completely closing the mouth on each side of the cable and electrically connected to the shield.