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US 10,096,931 B2Granted
Connector with variable contour
AssigneeFoxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorsTerrance F. Little, Stephen Sedio, Wei-Hao Su, Sheng-Pin Gao, Chih-Ching Hsu, Wei-Kang Liu
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Abstract
The plug connector includes an insulative housing and a terminal module wherein the terminal module is able to be moveable relative to the housing via sliding or rotation or translation or even detachment so as to have the front mating portion of the terminal module independently mated with the thin receptacle connector or cooperate with the housing to be mated with the regular RJ-45 modular jack.
Claims20
A plug connector comprising:
- an insulative housing configured to mate with an RJ-45 modular jack along a front-to-back direction;
- and
- a terminal module moveable relative to the housing and including an insulator enclosing a plurality of contacts configured to mate with corresponding terminals of the RJ-45 modular jack, the contacts arranged in a row along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- a front mating portion of the terminal module is dimensioned less than the housing in a vertical direction perpendicular to both the front-to-back direction and the transverse direction so as to be mated independently with a thin receptacle connector which is thinner than the RJ-45 modular jack in said vertical direction.
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A plug connector comprising:
- an insulative housing configured to be received within a mating cavity of a standard RJ-45 modular jack along a front-to-back direction;
- and
- a terminal module moveable relative to the housing and including an insulator enclosing a plurality of contacts configured to mate with corresponding terminals of the standard RJ-45 modular jack, the contacts arranged in a row along a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- a front mating portion of the terminal module is dimensioned less than the mating cavity of the standard RJ-45 modular jack in a vertical direction perpendicular to both the front-to-back direction and the transverse direction so as to be mated independently with a thin receptacle connector which is thinner than the RJ-45 modular jack in said vertical direction.
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A plug connector comprising:
- a housing configured to be received within a mating cavity of a standard RJ-45 modular jack along a front-to-back direction;
- and
- a terminal module moveable relative to the housing and including an insulator enclosing a plurality of blade type contacts configured to mate with corresponding terminals of the standard RJ-45 modular jack, the contacts arranged in a row along a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;
- wherein
- a front mating portion of the terminal module is dimensioned less than the mating cavity of the standard RJ-45 modular jack in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transveres direction so as to be mated with a thin receptacle connector which is thinner than the RJ-45 modular jack in said vertical direction;
- wherein
- each of the contacts includes a front contacting section exposed downwardly to an exterior in the vertical direction, and a rear tail section spaced from the front contacting section with a distance in said front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction, and a plurality of wires mechanically and electrically are connected to the corresponding tail sections, respectively.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.