Panduit Corporation

Frank M Straka

Ronald L Tellas

Masud Bolouri-Saransar

Satish I Patel

Robert E Fransen

Vytas J Vaitkus

Jason J German

Melanie M Hagar

Paul W Wachtel

Louann M Devine

Ronald Alex Nordin

Nicholas G Martino

Andrew Ciezak

Michael K Yuan

Gina Lyn Sepic

Joshua A Valenti

Wayne C Fite

Darren J Reigle

David C Stanislaw

Ronald A Tellas

Michael A Tome

Andy Ciezak

Nicholas Martino

Gina Sepic

Gina L Sepic

A field terminal plug assembly including an RJ45 plug connected to a termination zone. The termination zone includes a wire cap, a rear sled, and an electrical board assembly with attached insulation displacement contacts (IDCs) electrically connected to the twisted wire-pairs of assembly cable. The wire cap is configured to terminate twisted wire-pairs of a communications cable to the IDCs when the wire cap is inserted into the rear sled. The IDCs contain at least a first and a second IDC, the first IDC having a first horizontal length and a first vertical length and the second IDC having a second horizontal length and a second vertical length. The first vertical length does not equal the second vertical length but the first vertical length plus the first horizontal length equals the second vertical length plus the second horizontal length.

Field terminable RJ45 plug assembly

Various implementations of lead frame style communications connectors are disclosed. In some implementations, a lead frame style communications connector may include a plurality of conductors each including a plug contact region and an opposing cable conductor termination region. Each of the plurality of conductors may be arranged in one of a first subset of conductors and a second subset of conductors. The lead frame style communications connector a mandrel separating the first subset of conductors from the second subset of conductors.

Lead frame style communications connectors

An RJ45 Communication jack has a housing with a top, bottom, front, and back. A foil is immediately adhered to and partially covers the housing. A top or bottom of the housing is covered by a first portion and a second portion of the foil wherein the first portion and the second portion are separated by a nonconductive gap. The gap extends from the front of the housing to the rear of the housing. With such foils placed on each one of a series of adjacent jack housing, common mode noise caused by capacitive coupling between adjacent ones of the foils is reduced.

Method and system for improving crosstalk attenuation within a plug/jack connection and between nearby plug/jack combinations

A communication connector including a plurality of conductors each having a plug contact region and an opposing cable conductor termination region. The plurality of conductors are arranged in respective communication pairs. The communication connector includes a coupling zone between a first conductor of a first communication pair and a second conductor of a second communication pair. The coupling zone has at least one first conductive finger connected to the first conductor and at least one second conductive finger connected to the second conductor, each of the first conductive fingers are adjacent to at least one of the second conductive fingers.

Communication connector having a plurality of conductors with a coupling zone

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to communication connectors, and methods of manufacture thereof and their components. In some embodiments, the methods focus on reducing the net effect on electrical performance of communication connectors from variation in manufacturing, where the connectors include multiple stages of capacitive coupling.

Methods of manufacture of communication connectors and communication connector circuits

A communication adapter that includes an RJ45 jack with a plurality of plug interface contacts and an ARJ45 plug including a plurality of plug contacts. The plug interface contacts are in electrical communication with the plug contacts. The RJ45 jack and the ARJ45 plug are connected by a housing.

ARJ45 to RJ45 adapter

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the field of electronic communication, and more particularly, to techniques used to compensate for/reduce/or otherwise manipulate crosstalk in communication connectors, and apparatuses and methods which employ such techniques. In an embodiment, the present invention is a communication connector that includes a plurality of signal pairs including at least a first pair and a second pair, a first compensation stage between the first pair and the second pair, and an orthogonal compensation network between the first pair and the second pair. The orthogonal compensation network can be time delayed from the first compensation stage.

Connectors and systems having improved crosstalk performance

An RJ45 Communication jack has a housing with a top, bottom, front, and back. A foil is immediately adhered to and partially covers the housing. A top or bottom of the housing is covered by a first portion and a second portion of the foil wherein the first portion and the second portion are separated by a nonconductive gap. The gap extends from the front of the housing to the rear of the housing.

A communication connector comprising plug interface contacts having a plurality of conductor pairs, and corresponding cable connector contacts. A printed circuit board connects the plug interface contacts to respective cable connector contacts. The printed circuit board includes circuitry between a first conductor pair and a second conductor pair. The circuitry has a first mutually inductive coupling between a first conductor of the first conductor pair and a first conductor of the second conductor pair, a first capacitive coupling between the first conductor of the first conductor pair and the first conductor of the second conductor pair. The first capacitive coupling is approximately concurrent with the first mutually inductive coupling. A shunt capacitive coupling connects the first conductor of the second conductor pair to a second conductor of the second conductor pair.

Communication connector with crosstalk compensation

A communication jack which includes a housing with an aperture for receiving a communication plug, and a circuit board at least partially within the housing. The circuit board includes crosstalk compensation elements. A plurality of plug interface contacts are connected to the circuit board. At least one of the plurality of plug interface contacts includes a contact element layered with at least one spring element.

Communication connector with a plurality of plug interface contacts

An RJ45 communication jack has a housing with a top, bottom, front, and back. A foil is immediately adhered to and partially covers the housing. A top or bottom of the housing is covered by a first portion and a second portion of the foil wherein the first portion and the second portion are separated by a nonconductive gap. The gap extends from the front of the housing to the rear of the housing.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Frank M Straka