MULTI-CONTACT CONNECTOR WITH INTEGRATED SHORT-CIRCUIT ELEMENT

A multiple-contact plug and a plug connector system equipped therewith are described. The multiple-contact plug has a plug housing having contact receiving chambers and a plurality of contacts that are each inserted into one of the contact receiving chambers. The contacts are each formed having a contact base body and an elastically deflectable primary lance protruding laterally from this contact base body, which lance is elastically reversibly deflectable from an outward-protruding position into a position deflected toward the contact base body. The multiple-contact plug in addition has at least one short-circuit jumper element. Electrically conductive contact surfaces of the short-circuit jumper element are situated in at least two of the contact receiving chambers and are electrically conductively connected. The contact surfaces are situated in the contact receiving chambers at positions such that they are each contacted by the primary lance, in its protruding position, of a contact fixed in the respective contact receiving chamber. On a mating plug, a short-circuit separating element can then be fashioned such that, in a plugged-together state, it displaces the primary lance of at least one contact from the protruding position into the deflected position, and in so doing interrupts the electrical contact between the primary lance and the contact surface of the short-circuit separating element.