Commscope, Inc of North Carolina

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Commscope Technologies LLC

Avaya Technology LLC

At&t Bell Laboratories

American Telephone and Telegraph, Co.

At&t Information Systems Inc.

Commscope, Inc.

American Telephone and Telegraph Company; At&t Information Systems

Bryan Scott Moffitt

Wayne David Larsen

Amid Ihsan Hashim

Luc Walter Adriaenssens

Wayne D Larsen

Richard A Schumacher

Brian J Fitzpatrick

Gary J Grimes

Scott Martin Keith

Shawn Phillip Tobey

John N Abel

Michael Gregory German

Scott Lynn Michaelis

Julian Robert Pharney

Christopher Lanzafame

Theodore Alan Conorich

Ronald Lee Wild

William Tracy Spitz

William J Ivan

Ryan E Enge

Douglas C Smith

Dennis Bryan James

Yi-Teh Shih

Daniel B Bertoncini

Timothy C Miller

Troy P Million

Robert L Beecher

James J Ferenc

Louis R Goke

Louis D Vining

William T Spitz

Ronald L Wild

Chen-Chien Lin

Goalm M Choudhury

Scott Brown

A family of connectors to accommodate a single twisted pair of conductors is disclosed herein. The family of connectors includes a free connector, a fixed connector, and an adapter; the free and/or fixed connectors can be modified to accommodate the adapter configuration and/or modified to accommodate various patch cord configurations. In certain embodiments, the one or more of the family of connectors adopts an LC fiber optic style connector configuration and an LC fiber optic footprint configuration. In certain examples, one or more of the family of connectors adopts an LC fiber optic style connector configuration but in a footprint that is larger or smaller than the footprint of the LC fiber optic footprint. Other configurations may also be adopted.

Connectors for a single twisted pair of conductors

A family of connectors to accommodate a single twisted pair of conductors is disclosed herein. The family of connectors includes a free connector, a fixed connector, and an adapter; the free and/or fixed connectors can be modified to accommodate various patch cord and mounting configurations. In certain embodiments, the one or more of the family of connectors adopts an RJ 45 style connector or RJ 45 style jack/receptacle configuration in a reduced footprint, e.g. one-half, one-third or one-quarter the size of a standard RJ 45 connector or jack/receptacle.

Patch cords are provided that include a communications cable that has at least first through fourth conductors and a plug that is attached to the cable. The plug includes a housing that receives the cable, a printed circuit board, first through fourth plug contacts, and first through fourth conductive paths that connect the first through fourth conductors to the respective first through fourth plug contacts. The first and second conductors, conductive paths, and plug contacts form a first differential transmission line, and the third and fourth conductors, conductive paths, and plug contacts form a second differential transmission line. Each of the first through fourth plug contacts has a first segment that extends longitudinally along a first surface of the printed circuit board, and the signal current injection point into the first segment of at least some of the first through fourth plug contacts is into middle portions of their respective first segments.

Patch cord having a plug contact with a signal injection point in its middle

Patch cord having a plug with contacts having a curved segment extending forwardly of a front edge of a printed circuit board

Communications plugs are provided that include a plug housing. A plurality of plug contacts are mounted in a row at least partly within the plug housing. The plug contacts are arranged as differential pairs of plug contacts. Each of the differential pairs of plug contacts has a tip plug contact and a ring plug contact. A first capacitor is provided that is configured to inject crosstalk from a first of the tip plug contacts to a first of the ring plug contacts at a point in time that is after the point in time when a signal transmitted through the first of the tip plug contacts to a contact of a mating jack reaches the contact of the mating jack.

Communications plugs having capacitors that inject offending crosstalk after a plug-jack mating point and related connectors and methods

Communications jacks include a housing having a plug aperture in a front portion thereof and a flexible printed circuit board having a plurality of conductive paths thereon. A plurality of input contacts and a plurality of output contacts are each electrically connected to respective ones of the conductive paths on the flexible printed circuit board. A spring that is separate from the input contacts is connected to at least a first of the input contacts. Each of the input contacts comprises a separate, raised contact that is connected to the flexible printed circuit board and mounted to extend into the plug aperture.

Communication jack having a plurality of contacts mounted on a flexible printed circuit board

Patch cord having a plug with differential transmission lines

Communications connectors include a housing and a printed circuit board that is at least partially mounted in the housing that has a plurality of conductive paths that are arranged in pairs to form a plurality of differential transmission lines. These connectors further include a plurality of contacts, each of which is electrically connected to a respective one of the conductive paths of the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board further includes at least a first floating image plane that is located between a top surface and a bottom surface thereof, the floating image plane being electrically isolated from the plurality of conductive paths.

Communication connector having a printed circuit board with thin conductive layers

A communications cable includes a plurality of longitudinally extending pairs of conducting elements, a low profile male connector secured to a first end of the cable, and a low profile female connector secured to an opposite second end of the cable. The plurality of pairs of conducting elements terminate at the male connector in a first orientation and terminate at the female connector in a second orientation. The first and second orientations are such that each respective conducting element can be connected to itself when the male and female connectors are matingly engaged with each other.

Pair orbit management for communication cables

A back-end variation control cap configured for use with a jack module including a plurality of insulation displacement connectors, the cap being configured for routing a plurality of twisted conductor pairs. The cap includes an upper portion, a bottom portion, a plurality of twisted pair channels extending between the upper portion and the bottom portion, and a pair of opposed end walls, each of the end walls including a plurality of wire constraints disposed thereon. Each wire constraint has opposed surfaces configured to retain one of the conductors and each twisted conductor pair extends through one of the twisted pair channels and the conductors of the twisted conductor pairs are disposed in the plurality of wire constraints such that each conductor is aligned with one of the insulation displacement connectors when the bottom portion is disposed adjacent the jack module.

Back-end variation control cap for use with a jack module

A communications jack includes: a jack frame having a plug aperture; a plurality of contact wires, the contact wires having free ends that extend into the plug aperture, the free ends of the contact wires being arranged serially in side-by-side relationship; a plurality of electrical terminals, the terminals being arranged in pairs, each pair defining a communication channel; a dielectric mounting substrate, the mounting substrate including a plurality of mounting locations for contact wires and a plurality of mounting locations for the electrical terminals; and a plurality of conductors mounted on the substrate, each of the conductors extending, defining a path, and establishing electrical connection between a contact wire mounting location and an electrical terminal mounting location. First and second of the conductors that are connected to one of the pairs of terminals each include a coupling section, the coupling sections being immediately adjacent to each other and having identical instantaneous current direction such that the sections couple and cause a localized increase in inductance.

Communications jack with printed wiring board having paired coupling conductors

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Red Bank, NJ, United States of America

Bryan Scott Moffitt