Modular jack assembly

A modular jack comprising:

• a housing member of insulative material having a cavity formed therein, said cavity having a ceiling, a floor and a rear wall, said cavity being shaped for receiving a modular plug, said housing further having an aperture opening into said cavity;
• a light emitting diode (LED) assembly disposed atop said cavity and a partition separating said LED assembly from said cavity, said LED assembly having a chamber coextensive with said cavity, said LED assembly further having an LED received in said chamber and a pair of LED leads fully contained within said chamber;
• and
• a plurality of contact pins disposed within said cavity;
• each of said contact pins having a first end positioned near to said aperture and disposed proximate to said ceiling;
• said contact pins extending rearwardly along said ceiling and having a distance from said ceiling that varies with travel toward said rear wall of said cavity;
• said contact pins having a downward turn near said rear wall and a downward extent alongside said rear wall, said contact pins protruding through said floor so that second ends of said contact pins project beyond a bottom exterior surface of said housing.

A ganged modular jack assembly comprising:

• a left-end member;
• and
• a right-end member;
• each member further comprising:
• a housing including a body of insulative material and having an interior cavity divided into a light emitting diode (LED) chamber and a plug receiving chamber, said housing further having exterior left, right and bottom surfaces, said LED chamber extending from a front of said housing toward a rear of said housing and being disposed atop said plug receiving chamber;
• contact pins disposed within said plug receiving chamber;
• at least one LED disposed within said LED chamber, said at least one LED having a pair of LED leads substantially contained within said LED chamber and extending toward said rear of said housing;
• and
• first and second connector leads disposed within said body of insulative material and toward said rear of said housing, an end of each connector lead being electrically coupled to one of said LED leads, another end of each connector lead extending through said exterior bottom surface of said housing;
• said left-end member having a coupling member formed on said exterior right surface of said housing;
• said right-end member having a coupling member formed on said exterior left surface of said housing.

A stacked modular jack adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board, said stacked modular jack comprising:

• a housing member having two vertically-aligned plug-receiving chambers, an upper plug-receiving chamber and a lower plug-receiving chamber, formed therewithin;
• a light emitting diode (LED) assembly having two vertically aligned LED-receiving chambers, said LED assembly being disposed atop said housing member;
• at least one LED received within each of said LED-receiving chambers, each LED having a pair of LED leads extending toward a rear of said LED-receiving chamber;
• and
• contact pins received within said plug-receiving chambers.