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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1999
Dennis Lamar Troutman, Fishers, IN (US);
William Tracy Spitz, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A communication connector assembly has a base support, and at least first and second pairs of terminal contact wires with base portions mounted on the base support. The free end portions of the contact wires define a zone of contact within which electrical connections are established with a mating connector, and each pair of contact wires defines a different signal path in the connector assembly. The first and the second pair of contact wires have corresponding leading portions extending from the free end portions, to a side of the zone of contact opposite from the base portions. A leading portion of a contact wire of the first pair, and a leading portion of a contact wire of the second pair, are constructed and arranged for capacitively coupling to one another thus conveying capacitive crosstalk compensation to the zone of contact where offending crosstalk is introduced by a mated connector.