Protective cover for header

Claim 1

An improved cable connector for use with high voltage flat wide cable including a dielectric housing and a dielectric protective rear cover, the housing having a cable receiving face, a first wide sidewall and an opposite second wide sidewall joined by end walls, an opening being formed between said sidewalls and endwalls; the protective rear cover being a one-piece member having a pair of transverse cable engagement sections associated with said sidewalls and with the wide major surfaces of the cable, the cover being securable to said housing to extend across the cable receiving face thereof adjacent rearward exposed ends of terminal members within said housing, each transverse cable engagement section having at least two spaced-apart latching projections disposed forwardly thereof on respective arms with the arms spaced apart from side to side not less than the nominal thickness of the cable, in order that said cover is securable to the rearward end of the connector after the cable is secured therein and each of said projections may be secured in respective corresponding latch apertures in each of the first and second housing sidewalls, the latching projections and apertures being adjacent the exposed rearward terminal ends, the improvement comprising: flanges extending laterally from said arms for covering said apertures in the housing to prevent arcing through said apertures in the presence of high voltage when said protective rear cover is secured to said housing and said latching projections are secured in said housing apertures.