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AssigneeStewart Stamping Corporation
InventorsRobert J. Brennan, Terrence Meighen, Walter M. Phillipson
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A jack for a modular plug connector which terminates an EMI/RFI shield surrounding the conductors of a cord, as well as the cord conductors themselves as is conventional, by which the electromagnetic and radio frequency signals radiated from the conductors and carried through the shield are grounded. The jack includes front and back parts connected to each other to define a rearwardly opening receptacle for a conventional multi-contact modular insert and a communicating forwardly opening receptacle for the modular plug connector. The jack is provided with a grounded contact which, upon insertion of the modular plug connector, electrically engages a shield terminating contact which forms a part of the modular plug connector to thereby electrically couple the grounded jack contact with the EMI/RFI shield surrounding the cord conductors. The front part and possibly the back part of the jack may be formed of a plastic material which provides good EMI/RFI shielding to control radiation of high frequency signals from within the jack as well as to suitably attenuate any high frequency signals radiated from equipment external to the jack passing into the connector receptacle.
A jack for a modular plug connector which terminates a cord constituted by a plurality of insulated conductors surrounded by a sheath of conductive material constituting a shield for suppressing radiation of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference-causing signals from and to the conductors, the modular plug connector including a dielectric housing having a cord-receiving aperture communicating with an internal cord-receiving cavity having a conductor-receiving portion in which the cord conductors are situated, a plurality of flat contact terminals having conductive piercing portions and contact edges, each flat contract terminal being situated in a respective slot in the housing aligned with a respective conductor with its piercing portion piercing said respective conductors to electrically engage the same and wherein the contact edges of the flat contact terminals are exposed at a common side wall of the housing, and shield terminating contact means passing through a side wall of said connector housing electrically engaging said shield, the shield terminating contact means including an externally exposed portion situated at the exterior surface of one of the walls of the connector housing, the jack comprising:
a jack for a modular plug connector which terminates a cord constituted by a plurality of insulated conductors surrounded by a sheath of conductive material constituting a shield for suppressing radiation of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference-causing signals from and to the conductors, the modular plug connector including a dielectric housing having a cord-receiving aperture communicating with an internal cord-receiving cavity having a conductor-receiving portion in which the cord conductors are situated, a plurality of flat contact terminals having conductive piercing portions and contact edges, each flat contact terminal being situated in a respective slot in the housing aligned with a respective conductor with its piercing portion piercing said respective conductors to electrically engage the same and wherein the contact edges of the flat contact terminals are exposed at a common side wall of the housing, and shield terminating contact means passing through a side wall of said connector housing electrically engaging said shield, the shield terminating contact means including an externally exposed portion situated at the exterior surface of one of the walls of the connector housing, the jack comprising:
A jack for a modular plug connector which terminates a cord constituted by a plurality of insulated conductors surrounded by a sheath of conductive material constituting a shield for suppressing radiation of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference-causing signals from and to the conductors, the modular plug connector including a dielectric housing having a cord-receiving aperture communicating with an internal cord-receiving cavity having a conductor-receiving portion in which the cord conductors are situated, a plurality of flat contact terminals having conductive piercing portions and contact edges, each flat contact terminal being situated in a respective slot in the housing aligned with a respective conductor with its piercing portion piercing said respective conductors to electrically engage the same and wherein the contact edges of the flat contact terminals are exposed at a common side wall of the housing, and shield terminating contact means passing through a side wall of said connector housing electrically engaging said shield, the shield terminating contact means including an externally exposed portion situated at the exterior surface of one of the walls of the connector housing, the jack comprising:
A jack for a modular plug connector which terminates a cord constituted by a plurality of insulated conductors surrounded by a sheath of conductive material constituting a shield for suppressing radiation of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference-causing signals from and to the conductors, the modular plug connector including a dielectric housing having a cord-receiving aperture communicating with an internal cord-receiving cavity having a conductor-receiving portion in which the cord conductors are situated, a plurality of flat contact terminals having conductive piercing portions and contact edges, each flat contact terminal being situated in a respective slot in the housing aligned with a respective conductor with its piercing portion piercing said respective conductors to electrically engage the same and wherein the contact edges of the flat contact terminals are exposed at a common side wall of the housing, and shield terminating contact means passing through a side wall of said connector housing electrically engaging said shield, the shield terminating contact means including an externally exposed portion situated at the exterior surface of one of the walls of the connector housing, the jack comprising:
A jack for a modular plug connector which terminates a cord constituted by a plurality of insulated conductors surrounded by a sheath of conductive material constituting a shield for suppressing radiation of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference-causing signals from and to the conductors, the modular plug connector including a dielectric housing having a cord-receiving aperture communicating with an internal cord-receiving cavity having a conductor-receiving portion in which the cord conductors are situated, a plurality of flat contact terminals having conductive piercing portions and contact edges, each flat contact terminal being situated in a respective slot in the housing aligned with a respective conductor with its piercing portion piercing said respective conductors to electrically engage the same and wherein the contact edges of the flat contact terminals are exposed at a common side wall of the housing, and shield terminating contact means passing through a side wall of said connector housing electrically engaging said shield, the shield terminating contact means including an externally exposed portion situated at the exterior surface of one of the walls of the connector housing, the jack comprising:
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