Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Samtec Incorporated

Stewart Connector Systems, Inc.

David F Givens

Leonard K Espenshade

Ronald P Locati

John Matthew Hess

Douglas Edward McCartin

Derek Imschweiler

Jeffrey Wallace Fleming

Patrick Hulbert

Douglas Wathen

John Hynes

Ronald Janz

A modular jack includes a housing having a socket and an opening arranged to receive a modular plug into the socket, and a sled including a contact array arranged within the socket, wherein the sled is removable from the socket through the opening of the housing without disassembling the housing.

Modular jack with removable contact array

A connector assembly ( ) mounted on a printed circuit board for mating with a network cable includes a housing ( ) configured to form two mating ports ( ) for receiving their complementary connectors. A conditioning unit ( ) is mounted into the housing ( ) to be disposed between the mating ports ( ), and includes a circuit board ( ) having conditioning components ( ) and two terminal modules ( ) surface mounted thereon. Each of the terminal modules ( ) has terminals ( ) insert-molded therein and is mounted on a different side of the circuit board ( ) from each other. At least one flexible latch ( ) is formed on the middle portion of one sidewall of the housing ( ) and a notch ( ) is formed at one edge of the circuit board ( ) to be engaged with the latch ( ) to fix the conditioning unit ( ) in position. Thus, the conditional unit ( ) is easily secured to the housing ( ) and the latch ( ) is easily detached from the notch ( ) by a tool.

Connector assembly

A modular jack connector includes a housing defining a plug receiving space for receiving a complementary plug connector therein. The housing includes a printed circuit board with a number of first and second terminals mounted thereon. Each first terminal includes a spring arm extending into the plug receiving space. A first noise suppressing device is mounted on the printed circuit board and electrically connecting the first terminals with corresponding second terminals via the printed circuit board. This invention is characterized in that ferrite ceramics are integrally arranged to the second terminals so as to provide an enhanced noise suppressing result.

Electrical connector having integral noise suppressing device

A connector assembly for mounting on a main printed circuit board, comprising a jack defining a plug-receiving receptacle and including an outer housing part and an inner housing part, circuit coupling means including contact portions arranged in said receptacle and adapted to engage contacts of a mating plug when situated in said receptacle and terminal portions adapted to engage the main printed circuit board and being electrically coupled to said contact portions, a light pipe element arranged in said jack being visible from a front face of said jack, and light generating means for generating light and being arranged such that light generated by said light generating means is transmitted through said at least one light transmitting section to said front face of said jack. The circuit coupling means further comprising an internal printed circuit board arranged in said jack and including filtering components mounted thereon, said internal printed circuit board including a wiring pattern for electrically coupling a first set of contacts, a second set of contacts and filtering components together.

Modular electrical connector assemblies with magnetic filter and/or visual indicator

An electrical connector ( ) includes an insulative housing ( ) defining a receiving cavity ( ), a contact insert ( ), a conductive outer shield ( ) enclosing the insulative housing, and a number of LED elements ( ) assembled to the insulative housing. The contact insert extends in the receiving cavity and divides the receiving cavity into a pair of plug-receiving cavities. The contact insert has a printed circuit board ( ), a pair of contact modules ( ) respectively mounted to a first and a second surfaces of the printed circuit board, a pair of magnetic modules ( ) electrically mounted to the first surface of the printed circuit board and a pair of footers ( ) mounted to the second surface of the printed circuit board. The contact modules respectively have electrical contacts ( ) extending into the plug-receiving cavities and electrically connected with the footers through the printed circuit board.

Electrical connector having printed circuit board mounted therein

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing ( ) receiving a plurality of terminals ( ) therein, a shield ( ) enclosing the insulative housing for engaging with a grounded chassis ( ), and a surge suppressing device ( ) received in the insulative housing. The surge suppressing device includes a dielectric substrate ( ) with interconnected surge suppressing circuitry and conductive signal traces ( ) provided on respective opposite major sides thereof, and a grounding clip ( ) mounted on the dielectric substrate and contacting with an inner surface of the shield. The terminals are electrically connected with the conductive signal traces.

Electrical connector having surge suppressing device

A modular jack connector comprises an insulative housing ( ) and an insert module ( ) received in the insulative housing. The insert module includes an insert ( ) having contacts ( ) retained therein, a cross talk compensating printed circuit board ( ), and a footer ( ) having terminals ( ) retained therein. Both the contacts and terminals have press-fit eyelet portions ( ) for facilitating assembly to the printed circuit board. The contacts of the insert are configured as four differential pairs having a pairing of - - - , wherein the and pairs are used for signal transmission, and the and pairs are used for signal reception. The contacts have intermediate portions ( ) arranged on upper and lower levels.

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Harrisburg, PA, United States of America

David F Givens