Abstract: In order to provide a simple connection between a shield housing and a strip body, the shield housing has resilient side parts with spring arms being initially bent inwards and then outwards and being pushed over lead-in and sliding inclines on the strip body and automatically latched on an insertion side or front of the strip body. Those sections of the spring arms which are bent outwards form contact elements for the shield housing to make contact on a mounting panel. The invention is suitable for motor vehicle filter plug connectors.

Abstract: A contact spring assembly includes a contact spring having a connection part for an electrical conductor and a contact part with a spring leg base and spring legs originating therefrom for contacting a plug contact. A detent sleeve is retained at the spring leg base, produced from sheet metal as a stamped and bent part, surrounds the contact part like a box and constructed as an overspring. The detent sleeve has a bottom wall, two side walls each having an overspring arm being cut out of the side wall, bent inward and resting on a respective one of the spring legs, a top wall being divided by a longitudinal slit, and a detent spring arm being cut out of one of the walls, extending in the longitudinal direction of the detent sleeve and being bent outward. The overspring arms are formed solely by dividing cuts extending substantially crosswise to a longitudinal direction of the detent sleeve.

Abstract: The electrical connector has contact elements in adjacent contact chambers in an insulating housing (1), each element having a crimping zone for the connection of stranded conductors. In addition, there is provided in the housing in each case one slot (16) for holding a locking strip (31) which interacts with in each case one locking edge (22) of each contact element. In order to avoid the spread strand ends from straying into adjacent contact chambers when the locking strip (31) is inserted at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the contact elements and hence causing a short-circuit, each crimping zone is located on a side of the wall of the partially-tubular contact element (2,102) which is opposite the locking edge.