Avaya Technology LLC

At&t Bell Laboratories

Lucent Technologies Inc.

At+t Corp.

Paul J Straub

Robert Ray Goodrich

Cherie L Wolfe

Jaime Ray Arnett

David Louis Reed

Harold D Bales

Michael P Zambelli

Daniel K Harden

Julian Robert Pharney

Barbara H Sauceda

Jonathan A Marks

Jerry L Glenn

James A Gillett

Ted E Steele

Ronald Lee Wild

William Tracy Spitz

Anthony D Franks

David A Reid

John Arthur Karpicke

Jamie Ray Arnett

Dennis Lamar Troutman

George Willis Reichard

William C Ziegler

Steven Barry Ely

Michael P Zanibelli

Richard Y Mei

Alan H McCurdy

A terminal housing for a communication jack assembly is disclosed. A representative embodiment of a terminal housing body for receiving a wire pair, the terminal housing body having a front end and a rear end, includes a base wall having a top portion. The terminal housing body also includes a channel formed in the top portion of the base wall for receiving the wire pair. The channel is adapted to guide the direction of the wire pair. The body further includes a plurality of wire guide posts extending from the top portion and joined by the base wall and running along opposing sides of the top portion of the base wall of the terminal housing body. Grooves separated by adjacent ones of the wire guide posts have openings into the channel for receiving the wires of the wire pair are also included in the body.

Terminal housing for a communication jack assembly

In accordance with the invention, there is provided a telecommunication jack that is free of cross-over sections, has cross-talk characteristics that approach Category 6 levels, and avoids the use of spring contact wires supported in a cantilevered fashion. This is achieved in a preferred implementation by spring terminal contact wires that are arch shaped. Each spring wire has a first leg having an end, a second leg having an end and an apex portion located between the first and second legs where the ends of the legs are supported on a wire board and each end makes electrical contact with separate conductive pads. When utilized in an operating circuit, one end and leg of a spring terminal contact wire is coupled to a conductive pad on the wire board that is in a current carrying signal path, and the other end and leg of that spring terminal contact wire is coupled to a different conductive pad on the wire board adapted for connection to a cross-talk compensating component. In accordance with the invention, both pads of the wire board are connected to a common spring terminal contact wire, although only one pad and one leg of the arch shaped spring wire may be in the current carrying signal path. The legs of the arch shaped spring terminal contact wires can be of equal or unequal length, the arch can be semi-circular, triangular or the like, and the conductive pads on the wire board of adjacent spring wire terminals can be either aligned or staggered in distance from the edge of the wire board.

High frequency telecommunication connector

A communication jack connector includes a wiring board having a front region, and a number of contact wires for engaging and making electrical connections with corresponding terminals of a conforming plug connector. The contact wires have free ends formed to be deflected resiliently in a direction toward the front region of the wiring board when engaging the plug connector. At least one clearance opening is formed in the wiring board at a location where the free end of a corresponding contact wire would otherwise contact an upper surface of the board when deflected by the plug connector. The clearance opening is dimensioned so that part of the free end of the contact wire deflects into the opening a certain distance from the upper surface of wiring board while the contact wire maintains sufficient resilient force to connect electrically with the corresponding terminal of the plug connector.

Communication jack connector construction for avoiding damage to contact wires

A communication connector capable of sustaining Category 6 performance when subjected to physical stress in an operating environment. The connector includes a connector housing, and a wire board with contact wires extending over a top surface of the board to establish points of electrical contact with terminals of a mating connector when the latter is inserted in the connector housing. A terminal housing is fixed on the top surface of the wire board, for supporting a number of connector terminals which are mounted on the board. The terminal housing and the connector housing are constructed and arranged to engage one another when the wire board is inserted with its contact wires in the connector housing, so that displacement of the points of contact between the contact wires and the terminals of the mating connector, is restrained during use of the communication connector.

High performance communication connector construction

A connection system for communication connectors. A first connector housing forms a front opening having an axis for receiving a second connector having a latch in the direction of the axis. The first connector housing has a retaining surface in the region of the front opening for cooperating with a part of the latch and defining a connected position for the second connector within the first connector housing. At least two resilient fingers project from a rear portion of the first connector housing toward the front opening, symmetrically with respect to the axis of the opening. Free ends of the fingers urge the second connector toward the connected position and restrain the second connector from deviating from the connected position during use. Optimal electrical performance of the mated connectors can then be maintained.

Positive connection system for high frequency communication connectors

A communication jack has a first pair and a second pair of contact wires defining corresponding signal paths in the jack. Parallel, co-planar free end portions of the wires are formed to connect electrically with a mating connector that introduces offending crosstalk to the signal paths. First free end portions of the first pair of contact wires are supported adjacent one another, and second free portions of the second pair are supported adjacent corresponding ones of the first free end portions. Intermediate sections of the first pair of contact wires diverge vertically and traverse one another to align adjacent to corresponding intermediate sections of the second pair of wires, to produce sufficient inductive compensation coupling to counter the offending crosstalk from the plug. Capacitive compensation coupling may be obtained for the contact wires via one or more printed wiring boards supported on or in the jack housing.

Inductive crosstalk compensation in a communication connector

An adjustable cable egress mechanism for cable connectors. The mechanism includes a protective hood, and a hub mounted inside the hood for rotation about a hub axis. The hub has a cable passage, and the hood has an outside wall with an elongated cable egress slot. The egress slot opens into the cable passage in the hub over a predetermined range of angular positions of the hub. Thus, a cable whose conductors terminate in an associated connector can be routed through the egress slot in the hood and the cable passage in the hub, and the cable rotated with the hub to a desired egress angle within the predetermined range. In the illustrated embodiment, the finger hub is engaged by latch formed on part of the hood to hold the cable at the desired egress angle.

Adjustable cable egress mechanism for cable connectors

An electrical connector, comprising an insulating housing, a plurality of conductors mounted within the insulating housing in at least two rows of aligned pairs, a first compensation section which provides a first crosstalk compensation, and a second compensation section which provides a second crosstalk compensation. A first end portion of each conductor is adapted to electrically connect with contacts of another connector while a second end portion of each conductor is adapted to electrically connect with an electrical device such as a printed circuit board. The first compensation section is located within the insulating housing with the conductors being arranged therein in an orientation to provide the first crosstalk compensation. The second compensation section further is located within the connector and typically comprises a multi-layered circuit board.

Connector having internal crosstalk compensation

A cable strain relief connector has a generally rectangular, elongated connector body with a terminal face at a front side of the body for engaging terminals of a mating connector, and a cable end face at a rear side of the body. The connector body has mounting fastener openings at each end of the length of the body for receiving fasteners for mounting the connector body in electrical connecting relation the mating connector. A cable strain relief clamp is seated on the cable end face of the connector body and extends over the cable end face between the fastener openings at each end of the connector body.

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Mooresville, IN, United States of America

Paul J Straub