Modular jack
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorsLynn W. Abernethy, Elvert S. Watts
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Abstract
An improved jack is disclosed for modular telephone interconnection. One or more shorting components are plugably mounted in a wall of the jack to common electrically selected beam contacts which are mounted in a base portion of the jack which protrude outwardly for plugable electrical connection in a circuit board. The contacts are stamped and formed from metal strip and then stripe plated with gold along the areas to be engaged by a plug type connector intermated with the jack.
Claims7
In a jack type connector having a molded base and a molded cover cooperating to form an internal cavity and a plurality of elongated spring contacts mounted in said base and projecting into said cavity for engaging electrically the electrical terminals of a plug type connector when the same is pluggably inserted into said cavity, the improvement comprising:
- said contacts having electrical lead portions depending outwardly of said base for pluggable connection in a circuit board which mounts said base,
- said contacts having resilient free ends projecting outwardly of said base and into said cavity,
- said cover includes a first end wall having an opening communicating with said cavity and profiled to compliment the profile of said plug type connector,
- a second end wall of said cover having a base receiving opening,
- side walls of said cover connecting said end walls,
- projecting rails along sides of said base slidably received along grooves in said cover side walls and extending from said base receiving opening toward said first end wall, said rails projecting from an end of said base and impinging sides of said first end wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.