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US 2016/0261074 A1Published application
Communications jacks having flexible printed circuit boards with low-coupling jackwire contacts mounted thereon
AssigneeCommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
InventorBrian J. Fitzpatrick
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Abstract
Communications jacks include at least first through third jackwire contacts and a flexible substrate that has a first finger and a second finger. The first jackwire contact and the third jackwire contact are each mounted on the first finger and the second jackwire contact is mounted on the second finger.
Claims20
A communications jack, comprising:
- at least one flexible substrate that has a first cantilevered finger and a second cantilevered finger;
- and
- a first jackwire contact that is mounted on both the first cantilevered finger and the second cantilevered finger.
An RJ-45 communications jack, comprising:
- a housing having a plug aperture;
- a flexible printed circuit board that extends into the plug aperture;
- first through eighth jackwire contacts mounted to extend upwardly from the flexible printed circuit board, wherein each of the first through eighth jackwire contacts includes a plug contact region that is above the flexible printed circuit board and has first and second ends that are located below the flexible printed circuit board.
An RJ-45 communications jack, comprising:
- a housing having a plug aperture;
- at least one flexible printed circuit board that extends into the plug aperture,
- wherein the at least one flexible substrate includes a first plurality of forwardly-extending cantilevered fingers that are cantilevered towards a front of the plug aperture, and the at least one flexible substrate further includes a plurality of rearwardly-extending cantilevered fingers that are cantilevered towards a back of the plug aperture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.