Connector for reducing electromagnetic field coupling
AssigneeCommunications Systems, Inc.
InventorsChad M. Paulson, Donald A. Ward
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Abstract
An electrical connector reduces cross talk between conductors carrying high frequency signals between input and output terminals. The connector has a lead frame with conductors that have generally parallel portions, but wherein some of the conductors have portions formed as out of the plane of the parallel portions as a hump. The humps have sections that provide spring contacts for engagement with a plug. The cross talk between specific conductors is further reduced by including capacitive coupling between selected conductors, and by positioning the conductors in desired locations relative to the conductors of other pairs of wires. The connector is provided with a load bar system for permitting easy coupling of the individual wires to input terminals.
Claims14
A connector for a multiple wire arrangement utilizing a plurality of twisted pair of wires, said connector being adapted for connection to a plug at a first end, the connector comprising electrical conductors extending along the connector from a second end wherein the wires attach to the conductors to the first end, said conductors having first conductor portions that are parallel to first conductor portions of other conductors and second spring contact portions for connection to the plug at the first end, the spring contact portions of selected conductors for the respective wires each being formed by offset sections formed between two straight lengths of the selected conductors that are parallel to a plane formed by the first conductor portions of the other conductors.
An electrical connector including a plurality of input terminals, a plurality of output terminals, an interconnection apparatus for electrically interconnecting the input and output terminals, the interconnection apparatus comprising at least two pairs of conductors that are spaced apart from each other and mounted relative to a dielectric surface, at least portions of said conductors being parallel to each other between the input terminals and spring contact portions for connection to a plug, and conductors of at least one of the pairs of conductors each having a non parallel portion between straight lengths of the conductors of the at least one pair in the spring contact portions thereof that forms the conductors of the at least one pair out of parallel with a plane defined by portions of the conductors of at least one other pair of conductors between the input terminals and spring contact portions thereof, the straight lengths of the spring contact portions being parallel to the plane, whereby cross talk of electrical signals between the conductors in the electrical connector is reduced.
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