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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1993
Joseph A Svette, Jr, Newton Falls, OH (US);
Jeffrey A Reeves, Cortland, OH (US);
Richard L Kidd, Stow, OH (US);
Thomas M Jackson, Canfield, OH (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An electrically insulated connector housing has a cable receiving end and a mating end and a plurality of spaced cavities extending longitudinally therethrough for receiving terminals crimped onto electrical cables which are positioned within the cavities. The connector assembly also includes an alignment overlay overlying the mating end of the connector housing and which is adhesively secured thereto. The overlay has openings therethrough which are arranged in a plurality of predetermined patterns and which are aligned with certain ones of the terminal cavities in the housing. The housing block has projections extending from the mating end at certain locations and the alignment overlay has notches at certain locations for receiving the projections to ensure that the overlay can only be adhesively secured to the housing if properly oriented relative to the housing block. A plurality of electrical devices for connection with the terminals in the connector housing having projecting terminals arranged in a pattern which can only be inserted through a predetermined pattern opening in the alignment overlay and mated to the proper terminals in the block housing so that the alignment overlay prevents the electrical devices from being misconnected to the housing block.