US 11,387,606 B2Granted

Communication connectors utilizing multiple contact points

AssigneePanduit Corp.

InventorsJoshua A. Valenti, Sean W. Lenz, Paul W. Wachtel, Robert E. Fransen, Satish I. Patel

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Abstract

Disclosed herein are various communications systems allowing for multiple contacts points between plug contacts in a communications plug and plug interface contacts (PICs) in a communications jack. In some disclosed implementations, a communications plug including a first and a second plug contact mated with a communications jack having a first and a second plug PIC may form a plurality of plug/jack interfaces. The plug/jack interfaces may form multiple current paths between the communications plug and the communications jack. When a signal propagates between the communications plug and the communications jack, it may be split in the communications plug between a first current path and a second current path, and recombined in the communications jack after traveling through the plurality of plug/jack interfaces.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A communications connector comprising:

a printed circuit board;
a shield divider attached perpendicular to the printed circuit board such that it extends from a first side of the printed circuit board and a second side of the printed circuit board, wherein the first side of the printed circuit board is opposite the second side of the printed circuit board;
insulation piercing contacts located on the printed circuit board;
a front load bar;
a rear load bar, and
a housing, wherein the front load bar and rear load bar are configured to retain conductors of communication cables and align with the insulation piercing contacts to terminate the conductors to the printed circuit board as the printed circuit board, front load bar, and rear load bar are placed inside the housing and further wherein the front load bar is configured to be secured to the first side of the printed circuit board and the rear load bar is configured to be secured to the second side of the printed circuit board.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/034,804Filed 28 Sep 2020 · continuation
Priority: 2 Mar 2017
Published: US 2021/0013678 A114 Jan 2021
Granted: 12 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H01R 13/6461
Specially adapted for high-frequency, e.g. structures providing an impedance match or phase match: means for preventing cross-talk
H01R 12/585
Terminals for insertion into holes: terminals having a press fit or a compliant portion and a shank passing through a hole in the printed circuit…
H01R 13/26
Contact members: pin or blade contacts for sliding co-operation on one side only
H01R 13/6466
By adding capacitive elements: on substrates, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB]

Family

Application62/465,984Us provisional application · filed 2 Mar 2017
Application15/904,620Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Feb 2018
Application16/458,388Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Jul 2019
US 10,361,514 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jul 2019
US 10,790,616 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Sep 2020
US 2021/0013678 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Jan 2021
US 2018/0254586 A1Published application
US 2019/0326708 A1Published application
US 11,387,606 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.