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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1995
Hiroaki Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Ishiwa, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A connector is connected to a cable composed of a plurality of electric wires, each of which comprises a metal wire covered with an insulator, and a sheath provided with an opening formed at its terminal end and covering the electric wires with one end portions of the electric wires projecting from the opening. The connector comprises an insulating base member, a plurality of conductive contact elements fixedly supported in the base member, and an insulating cover member removably coupled to the base member and covering terminal portions of the contact elements respectively connected to the metal wires. The cover member comprises an electric wire positioning portion for holding terminal ends of the one end portions of the electric wires so that the terminal ends confront the contact elements corresponding thereto, respectively, and a cable holding portion for holding the cable at an end portion of the sheath adjacent the opening.