Electrical connector with pivoting wire fixture

Claim 1

An electrical connector for terminating a plurality of wires, the connector comprising: a housing having a front face and a cavity which opens through the front face; a terminal insert carried by the housing, the terminal insert including a plurality of terminals having contact sections which are disposed in the cavity and opposite end portions which are connected to a circuit board; a plurality of insulation displacement contacts that are associated with respective ones of the wires, the insulation displacement contacts being mounted on the circuit board and electrically connected with respective ones of the plurality of terminals, the insulation displacement contacts being arranged in two spaced-apart rows, each of the rows including multiple ones of the insulation displacement contacts; and a fixture pivotally connected to the housing, the fixture having an array of first slots and an array of second slots, the arrays being spaced-apart, the first slots being axially aligned with respective ones of the second slots to define pairs of axially aligned spaced-apart slots, whereby the wires can be laced into respective ones of the pairs of slots when the fixture is in an open position, and the slots are arranged such that the wires become terminated to respective ones of the insulation displacement contacts when the fixture is pivoted to a closed position.