US 12,142,885 B2
Plug insert for a connector assembly and connector assembly
Jeroen De Bruijn, Loon op Zand (NL); Martin Szelag, Bickenbach (DE); Wijnand Van Gils, Raamsdonksveer (NL); Franz Mueller, Griesheim (DE); Ulrich Buchmann, Eppertshausen (DE); and Mike Laub, Bensheim (DE)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Nederland BV, s'Hertogenbosch (NL); and TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE)
Filed by TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, Bensheim (DE); and TE Connectivity Nederland BV, s'Hertogenbosch (NL)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/561,320.
Application 17/561,320 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/067373, filed on Jun. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19182078 (EP), filed on Jun. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0158365 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 4/2433 (2018.01); H01R 13/50 (2006.01); H01R 13/506 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 4/2433 (2013.01) [H01R 13/501 (2013.01); H01R 13/506 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plug insert adapted to be inserted into a connector assembly, comprising:
a plug insert body, including:
at least one contact member accessible from outside the plug insert; and
at least one insulation displacement contact electrically connected to the contact member;
a guiding assembly; and
at least one wire manager module including at least one cable receptacle for receiving and holding a cable or wire, the guiding assembly guiding the wire manager module relative to the plug insert body from a pre-assembly position, to an assembly position in which the insulation displacement contact extends into the cable receptacle, the wire manager module is latched to the plug insert body in the pre-assembly position, the at least one wire manager module includes at least one stopping member blocking movement of the wire manager module towards the plug insert body from the pre-assembly position, the at least one stopping member is broken in the assembly position by motion of the wire manager module.