It is a wire-to-board interconnect — the free-hanging (in-line) housing accepts crimp-terminated female socket contacts and mates with the corresponding PHD series pin header soldered to the PCB. The natural polyamide (PA66) body carries no contacts; those are ordered separately as a line item. This is the housing half of a harness assembly; the harness builder crimps the terminals onto the wire, inserts them into the housing, and the assembly mates to the board-mounted header.
Crimp Termination — What the Harness Builder Needs
The contact termination is crimp — no soldering, no IDC. The housing itself is a free-hanging (in-line) design, meaning it is not board-mounted; it terminates the wire harness and mates to a board-mounted pin header. The JST PHD series uses a specific female crimp terminal — confirm the wire gauge range and terminal part number from the series documentation before ordering the housing alone.