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US 2007/0178744 A1Published application
110-Style Connecting Block with Balanced Insulation Displacement Contacts
AssigneeCommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
InventorsAmid Hashim, Scott Keith
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Abstract
An insulation displacement contact (IDC) includes: upper and lower ends, each of the upper and lower ends including a slot configured to receive a conductor therein, the slots being generally parallel and non-collinear; and a transitional area merging with the upper and lower ends. An IDC of this configuration can be employed, for example, in 110-style connectors, and can enable such connectors to compensate for differential to common mode crosstalk between adjacent IDC pairs.
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A connector block, comprising:
- a housing having an upper end and a lower end;
- a first pair of tip and ring conductive insulation displacement contacts (IDCs) mounted in the housing;
- a second pair of tip and ring conductive IDCs mounted in the housing;
- wherein each of the IDCs has an upper end that has a first slot and a lower end that has a second slot, the lower end being offset from the upper end;
- wherein the tip IDCs are aligned in a first row within the housing and the ring IDCs are aligned in a second row within the housing;
- wherein the upper end of the housing includes a plurality of slits that define a plurality of pillars, and wherein the first slot of each IDC is aligned with a respective one of the slits;
- and
- wherein at least portions of the lower end of each of the IDCs extend outside the housing through one or more openings in the lower end of the housing.
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A connector block, comprising:
- a housing having an upper end and a lower end;
- at least one alignment flange extending from the lower end of the housing;
- a first pair of tip and ring conductive insulation displacement contacts (IDCs) mounted in the housing;
- a second pair of tip and ring conductive IDCs mounted in the housing;
- wherein each of the IDCs has an upper end that has a first slot and a lower end that has a second slot, the first slot and the second slot of each IDC being generally parallel and non-collinear;
- wherein the tip IDCs are aligned in a first row within the housing and the ring IDCs are aligned in a second row within the housing;
- and
- wherein at least portions of the lower end of each of the IDCs extend outside the housing through one or more openings in the lower end of the housing.
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A connector block, comprising:
- a housing having an upper end and a lower end;
- at least one alignment flange extending from the lower end of the housing;
- a first pair of tip and ring conductive insulation displacement contacts (IDCs) mounted in the housing;
- a second pair of tip and ring conductive IDCs mounted in the housing;
- wherein each of the IDCs has an upper end that has a first slot and a lower end that has a second slot, the lower end being offset from the upper end;
- wherein the tip IDCs are aligned in a first row within the housing and the ring IDCs are aligned in a second row within the housing;
- wherein at least portions of the lower end of each of the IDCs extend outside the housing through one or more openings in the lower end of the housing;
- and
- wherein the upper and lower ends of the IDCs of the first pair of IDCs and the upper and lower ends of the IDCs of the second pair of IDCs are located to self-compensate for crosstalk between the IDCs of the first and second pairs of IDCs.
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