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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2020
Commscope Technologies Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Paul John Pepe, Clemmons, NC (US);
Shawn Phillip Tobey, Trinity, NC (US);
CommScope Technologies LLC, Claremont, NC (US);
Abstract
A coupler couples a first connector with a second connector wherein each of the connectors is coupled to exactly two electrical conductors. Each coupler can be utilized in a shielded (e.g., metal) or non-shielded (e.g. non-metal) form as appropriate to a specific application. Each coupler includes exactly one pair of pin contacts, preferably with a square or rectangular cross-section. Each end of the pin contacts includes four tapered faces that join at a flattened apex and are configured to be received by the tuning fork contact of the connector. The pair of pin contacts are offset from one another and cross one another within the coupler to maintain electrical polarity as electricity travels from the tuning fork contacts of a first connector to the pin contacts of the coupler and onward to the tuning fork contacts of a second connector.