Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Jeffrey L Ziegler

Robert G Plyler

Charles R Nestor

Jay Harold Garretson

Thomas Edward Lazor

John J Merva

Raymond C Seiffert

A prepared ribbon cable is mass terminated to a preloaded electrical connector by wave soldering techniques. The preloaded connector comprises a housing and a plurality of terminals. The housing has an anvil in the form of a flange at the conductor end of the housing and a plurality of fins projecting from the conductor end to isolate the conductor attaching means of the terminals from each other. The terminals are inserted into cavities through openings at the mating end of the housing, retained by solder tabs which are bent over against the flange, and form part of the conductor attaching means. The conductor attaching means further includes slotted terminal portions which receive the conductors and position the ends of the conductors on the bent solder tabs.

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Columbiana, OH, United States of America

Jeffrey L Ziegler