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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2020
Panduit Corp., Tinley Park, IL (US);
Benjamin S. Novak, Lockport, IL (US);
Satish I. Patel, Roselle, IL (US);
Sean W. Lenz, Countryside, IL (US);
Roman J. Churnovic, Joliet, IL (US);
Robert E. Fransen, Orland Park, IL (US);
Robert L. Fritz, Elwood, IL (US);
Panduit Corp., Tinley Park, IL (US);
Abstract
A communications connector has a main plug assembly and a wire cap that is configured to terminate a pair of conductors to the pair of contacts by being secured to a side of the main plug assembly in a direction perpendicular to a plane defined by a deflection direction of a latch of the connector. In another embodiment, a communications connector has a main plug assembly and two electrical contacts within the main plug assembly wherein each electrical contact has a first end having a forked receptacle and a second end having an IDC that is configured to have a conductor terminated in a direction perpendicular to a direction of mating insertion and parallel to a plane defined by the contact.