Abstract: A method for manufacturing electrical connectors (22) which include rows of contact members (78, 90) held in a housing (24) includes feeding contact members in a wire form in parallel (74, 90), trimming such contact members to provide a partial form therefore at a trim station A, insert-molding such contact members to form a housing (62) and provide a carrier to tie such contact members together at a station (B), trimming said contact members to appropriate lengths, forming said contact members at further stations (C, D) into a multiple contact connector with rows of contact members in common planes held by the housing formed by insert-molding. Stamped and formed contact members (78', 90') are also contemplated utilized in an alternative method and both methods contemplate plating of the contact members either prior to molding or thereafter in alternative constructions, facilitated partially by the forming of the contact members into common planes.

Abstract: An electrical component (20) comprises electrical circuit means (22) and housing member (50) disposed over a first portion (24) of the electrical circuit means (22). The circuit means (22) has a second portion (30) extending outwardly from the housing member (50) at a junction (32) with the first portion (24). The housing member (50) comprising a dielectric amorphous thermoplastic resin which is molded over the first portion (24) of the electrical circuit means (22). The composition seals the interface (56) of the housing (50) and the extending second portion (30) of the circuit means (22) and maintains sealing engagement therewith when stress is applied to the interface (56).