Jack module with lamp assembly

A jack module lamp assembly comprising:

• a printed circuit board having a forwardly extending neck with top and bottom parallel edges;
• a pair of conductor strips connected to said printed circuit board, said strips being parallelly spaced and extending adjacent one side of said neck of said printed circuit board;
• a lamp housing having a hollow trunk and upwardly and downwardly extending legs, said upwardly extending leg having a downwardly facing channel and said downwardly extending leg having an upwardly facing channel, said channels being parallel and spaced for respectively receiving said bottom and top edges of said neck of said printed circuit board and sliding said housing back along said bottom and top edges, said hollow trunk further having an aperture;
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• a lamp housing retainer positioned between said pair of conductor strips, said lamp housing retainer being engaged to said neck and having a retaining boss for engaging said aperture of said hollow trunk when said lamp housing is slid onto said neck with said top and bottom edges being in sliding engagement within said upwardly and downwardly facing channels of said housing, said housing being locked on said neck by said retainer boss, said hollow trunk encasing portions of said conductor strip.

A jack module comprising:

• a printed circuit board having upper and lower forwardly extending necks defining a notch therebetween;
• a first housing connected to said upper neck and having a downwardly facing guide channel;
• a second housing connected to said lower neck and having an upwardly facing guide channel;
• a connector electrically and mechanically connected to said printed circuit board within said notch;
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• a vertically elongated electrical jack having upper and lower guide rails, said upwardly and downwardly facing guide channels being spaced for respectively receiving said lower and upper guide rails of said jack in sliding engagement wherein said jack assembly is slidably insertable into said notch for engagement with said connector.

A jack module, comprising:

• a printed circuit board having upper and lower forwardly extending necks having parallel top and bottom edges, said necks defining a notch therebetween;
• a connector electrically and mechanically connected to said printed circuit board within said notch;
• a pair of conductor strips electrically and mechanically connected to said printed circuit board, said strips being parallelly spaced and extending adjacent one side of said upper neck of said printed circuit board;
• a lamp housing having a hollow trunk encasing portions of said conductor strips, said lamp housing having an upwardly extending leg having a downwardly facing channel slidably engaging said top edge of said upper neck, said lamp housing further having a downwardly extending leg having an upwardly facing channel slidably engaging said bottom edge of said upper neck;
• a lamp housing retainer positioned between said pair of conductor strips within said hollow trunk of said lamp housing, said hollow trunk having an aperture and said retainer having a retaining boss inserting into said aperture for locking said lamp housing onto said upper neck, said lamp housing further having a downwardly facing guide channel bordering an upper portion of said notch;
• a housing connected to said lower neck and having an upwardly facing guide channel bordering a lower portion of said notch;
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• a vertically elongated electrical jack having upper and lower guide rails, said guide rails slidably engaging said respective downwardly facing and upwardly facing guide channels of said lamp housing and said lower neck housing wherein said electrical jack is slidably insertable into said notch for engagement with said connector.

The method of assembling a jack module lamp assembly, comprising the steps of:

• providing a printed circuit board having a forwardly extending neck with top and bottom parallel edges;
• connecting a pair of conductor strips to said printed circuit board in spaced substantially parallel alignment extending adjacent to said neck;
• positioning a retainer having a retaining boss between said conductor strips;
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• sliding a lamp housing having a hollow trunk with an aperture onto said neck until said retaining boss engages said aperture thereby locking said lamp housing onto said neck, said hollow trunk having an upward leg with a downwardly facing channel for slidably engaging the top edge of said neck, and said hollow trunk having a bottom leg with an upwardly facing channel for slidably engaging said bottom edge of said neck.