Network connector
AssigneeITT Corporation
InventorHerve Bricaud
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Abstract
The invention provides a telephone network connector (10, FIG. 8) with a rear portion (47) that holds a cartridge (56) which enables connections directly to ground and through a circuit component to ground. The cartridge lies within an electrically grounded metal shell (32), that, in turn, lies within a molded dielectric container (48). The cartridge has a grounded contact element (74, FIG. 2) which has threaded part (78) extending through a threaded hole (80) in the grounded shell. The cartridge also has a nongrounded contact element (76) which projects through a bushing part (92) of the dielectric container, which isolates the nongrounded contact from the walls of a hole (91) in the metal shell. The molded dielectric container forms a front connect tube (51, FIG. 8) and a pair of side tubes (52, 53).
Claims8
A network connector comprising:
- a dielectric container which has a dielectric rear end wall and a dielectric sleeve portion extending forwardly from said rear end wall, said dielectric rear end wall having ground and nonground holes, and having a dielectric bushing part aligned with said nonground hole and projecting forwardly from said rear end wall;
- a metal shell having a shell rear wall lying slightly forward of said container rear end wall, said shell having a shell sleeve portion lying closely within said dielectric sleeve portion, said shell rear wall having ground and nonground holes aligned respectively with said ground and nonground holes of said dielectric rear end wall, and said dielectric bushing projecting forwardly into said nonground hole;
- a cartridge lying within said metal shell, said cartridge having a dielectric cartridge housing with a component-holding region therein and with ground and nonground contact elements, said ground contact element having a rear portion engaged with walls of said ground hole of said shell rear wall, and said nonground contact extending rearward through said bushing part and through said nonground hole in said shell rear wall and having a rear end that is exposed from a rear surface of said dielectric rear end wall.
A network connector comprising:
- a dielectric container which has a dielectric rear end wall and a dielectric sleeve portion extending forwardly from said rear end wall;
- a metal shell having a shell rear wall lying slightly forward of said container rear end wall and having a shell sleeve portion lying closely within said dielectric sleeve portion;
- a cartridge lying within said metal shell, said cartridge having a dielectric cartridge housing with a component-holding region therein, said cartridge housing having a front wall with a pair of element-receiving holes and a pair of lead-receiving holes, and said cartridge including a pair of contact elements with front ends lying in said element-receiving holes and having threaded holes in said front ends;
- a circuit component having a component body lying in said component-holding region and having a pair of leads each extending forwardly through said lead-receiving holes in said cartridge front wall and connected to said front ends of said contact elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.