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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1995
Carl G Reed, Clemmons, NC (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Invention is directed to a high performance, shielded electrical connector which exceeds EIA/TIA 568-A requirements for Category 5 applications. A preferred connector is a modular jack, such as an array of modular jacks mounted to a printed circuit board, grounded within a metal housing. The connector comprises a dielectric housing having a top surface, a printed circuit board engaging surface, a pair of side walls, and a front surface, and at least one cavity extending interiorly from the front surface thereof for electrically engaging a complementary electrical connector. The connector includes a one-piece shielding member, stamped and formed from a sheet metal blank, to offer low resistance grounding of the connector. The shielding member is adapted to lie contiguous with at least the top surface and the side walls, and includes a plurality of cantilevered tabs struck from the walls of the metal shielding member. The tabs are elongated and extend from an internal location toward the front surface. Finally, the tabs are further characterized by a free end having a reverse bend therein which, in a resiled position, extends above the plane of the respective walls of the formed shielding member.