Abstract: The contact elements of the plug connector are engaged into chambers of an insulating strip by means of a conductor terminal component which has cutting and clamping contact edges. The chambers are only open towards a flat side of the strip, so that a conductor can be pressed into the contacting slots of the cutting and clamping contact points from the open side of the chambers. This allows an uncomplicated, orderly connection of the conductor to the contact elements after the connection of the contact elements to the insulating strips. A plurality of such strips can then be inserted into a housing and combined with the latter to form a multi-row, e.g. three or four row, plug connector.

Abstract: A right-angled plug-type connector for a printed circuit board connection characterized by a flexible fixing plate being secured in a plate-shaped retaining member to extend at right angles to the retaining member and having a plurality of bores in a pattern corresponding to a pattern of bores in the retaining member to receive contact elements which have a right angle bend. To improve the guidance of the contact elements which extend past a first side of the fixing plate to form contact prongs, each of the bores has a tubular extension which extends from a second side of the fixing plate. The tubular extensions improves the guidance and positioning of each of the prongs to prevent skewing or misalignment during the forming of a plug connection.

Abstract: A two piece housing plug connector of the type having multiple plug members received in bores in the housings with the plug members including socket ends for insertion of connectors at one end of the housing assembly and projecting plugs at the other end of the housing assembly, with the housing assembly parting along a line normal to the projection of the plugs and with antirotation axial movement locking means projecting from the plugs in the area of the part of the housing is provided with locking means designs effective to increase the current creepage path at the juncture line of the two housing halves. The locking means include projecting portions in each of the housing halves which are spaced from one another by an air gap substantially symmetrical to the parting line of the housing halves, the air gap having a distance which is at least as great as the effective length of the projecting locking means.