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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
William John Ivan, Woodbridge, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
This invention deals with a method of assembling first and second connectors at the ends of a cable including twisted pairs of color encoded wires, first ends of two wires of one of the twisted wire pairs are connected, preferably at random, to a dedicated pair of tip and ring contacts of the first connector. The second ends of the two wires of the one wire pair are connected, at random, to two intermediate contacts of the second connector. Each intermediate contact is connected by a pair of conductive paths to both of the tip and ring contacts of the second connector dedicated to the one wire pair. Afterwards, in reliance upon a visual determination of how the two wires are actually connected to the tip and ring contacts of the first connector and to the intermediate contacts of the second connector, one conductive path from each of the intermediate contacts is opened for exclusively interconnecting, via the two wires of the one wire pair, the tip and ring contacts of the first connector to respective tip and ring contacts of the second connector.