Terminating insulated conductors

Claim 1

An electrical plug and socket connector for the connection of an external conductor to an electronic circuit installed on a planar base plate with printed circuitry, comprising: a hollow, generally rectangular gutter-shaped housing, with a U-shaped cross section, for reception of an inserted plug-in part, said housing having an open side facing the printed circuitry on one side of the base plate, a plate-like closed side opposite said open side, and a pair of opposing sidewalls integral with and extending from said plate-like closed side to form free ends directed toward the base plate; means for fastening the free ends of said sidewalls to the baseplate to thereby close said open side of said housing, said means for fastening comprising projections, extending from the free ends of said sidewalls, fitted into apertures or slots situated in the base plate; and a plug-in part with contact members installed thereon which extend from a side of the plug-in part to cooperate with opposed-contact members formed by printed circuitry on or in the base plate, said plug-in part including a surface on the side thereof opposite the side from which said contact members extend; and wherein the opposed-contact members are spaced from and bridged by said closed side of said housing in such a way that, with the introduction of the plug-in part into the housing, said plug-in part is inserted between said closed side of said housing and said opposed-contact members, and said surface of said plug-in part opposite said contact members cooperates with the inner surface of said plate-like closed side of said housing so that said contact members are brought into sliding contact with the opposed-contact members on the base plate.