Lucent Technologies Inc.

Ronald Herbert Guelden

Jaime Ray Arnett

Michael Gregory German

Stanley Everett Wright

A wire-connection terminal is formed with a mounting base portion having a bottom edge that is shaped to align with a top surface of a wire board. The mounting base portion forms a shoulder that protrudes a certain distance so that the terminal can be restrained by an outside part that confronts the shoulder when the terminal is mounted on the wire board. A wire-connection portion of the terminal projects above the mounting base portion, and a wire board mounting part or tail projects below the mounting base portion. The mounting part has a needle eye configuration for retaining the terminal by friction in a corresponding opening in the wire board on which the terminal is to be mounted.

Solderless mountable insulation displacement connector terminal

A terminal housing assembly and terminal arrangement for a wire board, suitable for use with solderless mountable connector terminals. A terminal housing body has a base wall placed on a wire board at a wire connection terminal region of the board. The base wall has a channel grooved in its bottom surface for receiving base portions of a number of connector terminals on the wire board. The housing body has a row of terminal slots that open into the channel to receive wire connecting portions with the terminals, and the base portions of the terminals form shoulders that protrude a certain distance from the wire connecting portions. The housing body includes partitions between the terminal slots, wherein the partitions have bottom parts defining a base of the channel for confronting the shoulders of the terminals, and for restraining the terminals from being pulled out from terminal openings in the wire board while outside wires are being connected to and disconnected from the terminals.

Terminal housing and wire board arrangement with solderless mountable

A wire terminal block for communication connectors. The block includes a mandrel, and a frame arranged for mounting on a printed wire board and for supporting the mandrel on the board where a number of terminal wires emerge to contact a mating connector. A number of slots are formed along the mandrel, and an inner contour at a base of each slot is configured to form a desired bend radius in the terminal wires when the wires are seated in corresponding ones of the slots and are wrapped about the mandrel within the slots. In one embodiment, the inner contour of the mandrel is configured to form a first bend radius in the terminal wires at a side of the wire board from which the wires emerge, and to form a second bend radius in the terminal wires with which the wires angle back over an opposite side of the wire board to contact the mating connector.

Wire terminal block for communication connectors

A communication jack assembly suitable for high data rate applications, includes a wire board having conductive paths that extend between a jackwire terminal region at a first portion of the board and a wire-connection terminal region at a second portion of the board. A number of spring jackwires extend through the jackwire terminal region, to connect with a communication plug when placed in the jackwire terminal region. The jackwires connect at one end to corresponding conductive paths on the wire board, and the conductive paths form a part of at least one communications signal path when the plug is connected to the jackwires. The conductive paths may be configured to compensate for crosstalk otherwise developed in a signal path once the plug is mated with the jack. A dielectric terminal housing is formed to protect the wire-connection terminal region on top of the wire board, and a cover is formed to protect the connection terminal region on the bottom of the board. The wire board is captured between the housing and the cover when the housing and cover are joined to one another.

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Ronald Herbert Guelden