Commscope, Inc of North Carolina

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Avaya Technology LLC

Commscope Solutions Properties, LLC

Wayne D Larsen

Amid Ihsan Hashim

Bryan Scott Moffitt

Richard A Schumacher

Brian J Fitzpatrick

Julian Robert Pharney

Michael W Canning

Luc Walter Adriaenssens

Chen-chieh Lin

Jeremia P Starace

William C Baggett

Dianne W Gilland

Michael Gregory German

Scott Lynn Michaelis

Robert Ray Goodrich

Golam Mabud Choudhury

Ryan E Enge

Lyndon D Ensz

Wayne Scott Filus

George W Reichard, Jr

David L Heckmann

Thomas J Ellis

Theodore Edward Kluska

Mark G Spaulding

Jamie Ray Arnett

Nhan T Huynh

Hongwei Liang

Dennis L Troutman

Andrew Schwartz

Elliot A Baines, Jr

Charles A Tenorio

Swarna Prabha

Carl Todd Herman

Patch cords include a communications cable that has a first conductor and a second conductor that form a first differential pair, and a third conductor and a fourth conductor that form a second differential pair and a plug that is attached to the communications cable. The plug includes a housing that receives the communications cable, first through fourth plug contacts that are within the housing, and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes first through fourth conductive paths that connect the respective first through fourth conductors to respective ones of the first through fourth plug contacts. The plug further includes a first conductive shield that extends above a top surface of the printed circuit board that is disposed between the first differential pair and the second differential pair.

Crosstail-shaped conductive spacer extending rearwardly from a printed circuit board

A communication jack has a housing with a printed circuit board mounted partially within the housing, a plurality of jackwire contacts mounted on the printed circuit board and a flexible printed circuit board mounted on at least two of the jackwire contacts, wherein the flexible printed circuit board includes a crosstalk compensation circuit and has at least one fold and/or slit.

Communications jack having a flexible printed circuit board with a crosstalk compensation circuit and a slit

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

Communications jacks include a housing having a plug aperture that is configured to receive a mating RJ-45 plug along a longitudinal axis and eight jackwire contacts that are arranged as four differential pairs of jackwire contacts, each of the jackwire contacts including a plug contact region that extends into the plug aperture. A first of the jackwire contacts is configured to engage a longitudinally extending surface of a first blade of a mating RJ-45 plug when the mating RJ-45 plug is fully received within the plug aperture.

Communications jack having a flexible printed circuit board with conductive paths on two opposite sides of the board with the paths inductively and capacitively coupled

RJ-45 communications plug having a printed circuit board within a housing and a lossy dielectric material inbetween

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

Communications jacks having conductive paths with the same current direction that inductively and capacitively couple

Patch cord having a plug with a conductive shield between differential pairs formed by conductors of a cable

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 connectors include a plurality of input contacts that are arranged as differential pairs of input contacts, a plurality of first output contacts that are electrically connected to respective ones of the plurality of input contacts, and a first pair of second output contacts that are electrically connected by a pair of conductive paths to one of the differential pairs of input contacts. The first output contacts are configured to physically contact respective ones of a plurality of first contacts of a second communications connector. Moreover, each contact of the first pair of second output contacts is electrically in parallel to a respective one of the first output contacts when the communications connector is mated with the second communications connector.

Communications connectors having electrically parallel sets of contacts

Patch cords include a communications cable that has first through eighth conductors that are arranged as four twisted pairs. A TIA 568B type plug may be attached to the cable. This plug includes a housing that receives the cable and first through eighth plug contacts that include plug contact regions that are substantially aligned in a row in numerical order. The plug further includes a printed circuit board that has first through eighth conductive paths that connect the first through eighth conductors to the respective first through eighth plug contacts. A first portion of the first conductive path and a first portion of the second conductive path are routed as a transmission line, and a first portion of the sixth conductive path is routed therebetween.

Communications plugs and patch cords with mode conversion control circuitry

Communication jacks having longitudinally staggered jackwire contacts

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

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