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US 5,957,720 AGranted
Female socket of modular-jack type with integrated connections
AssigneePouyet, S.A.
InventorYves Boudin
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Abstract
This invention relates to a socket of the "modular-Jack" type, provided to receive cables arriving from very varied directions. It is associated with a connecting pusher which is totally symmetrical with respect to a transverse plane. Jaws fixed on the socket cooperate with shapes on the rear of the pusher in a order to grip it and introduce it by force, with a lever effect, in this receiving part. The receiving part has insulation displacement contact, which are intended to engage strands of the cable received.
Claims4
A female socket of the "modular-Jack" type comprising,
- insulation displacement contacts engaged in a rear part of said socket;
- each of said insulation displacement contacts having a longitudinal axis parallel to each other and to a longitudinal axis of the socket;
- a free end of each said insulation displacement contacts adapted to engage at least one strand of an input cable;
- a separate connecting pusher being provided to engage each said strand of said input cable when partially pushed into the rear part, to engage in a corresponding free end of each of said insulation displacement contacts;
- said socket having two jaws rotatable on said socket around said rear part after said connecting pusher has been partially pushed into said rear part, said two jaws gripping corresponding rear surfaces of said connecting pusher and progressively pushing said connector pusher completely into said rear part when said two jaws are rotated to electrically engage each said strand to the corresponding free end of each of said insulation displacement contacts;
- each of said two jaws having at least one free end branch, each said free end branch lying in a first common plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of each of said insulation displacement contacts when said two jaws have been rotated to push said connecting pusher completely into said rear part;
- said connecting pusher having a symmetrical shape which positions each said strand of said input cable in a second common plane parallel to said first common plane and permits engagement of each said strand to the connecting pusher through either of opposite ends of the connecting pusher.
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