High density connector for balanced transmission lines

A jack-type connector having a balanced transmission line structure, comprising:

• a plurality of pairs of jack-type signal contact elements arranged parallel to each other, and spaced longitudinally, in a row;
• a plurality of jack-type ground contact elements arranged alternately, and in parallel, with said plurality of pairs of jack-type signal contact elements in said row, a portion of each jack-type ground contact element having a profile, in a plane transverse to the row, which substantially matches a profile, in a plane transverse to the row, of each of said jack-type signal contact elements such that each ground contact element overlaps each pair of signal contact elements adjacent to the ground contact element and comprises a shield reducing cross-talk therebetween;
• a jack-type insulating body, made of an electrically insulating material, supporting said plurality of jack-type signal contact elements and said plurality of jack-type ground contact elements, each said pair of signal contact elements and an adjacent, parallel ground contract element comprising a balanced transmission line;
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• each of said plurality of iack-type signal contact elements and said plurality of jack-type ground contact elements including respective, first contact ends in facing, opposed relationship with respect to each other so as to be slidingly connectable with corresponding signal and ground contacts of a counterpart plug-type connector and including respective, second contact ends extending to an exterior of said jack-type insulating body.

A jack-type connector having a balanced transmission line structure, comprising:

• an electro-insulating body having a bottom wall and a peripheral side wall extending transversely therefrom and defining an interior space including interior, parallel sidewalls extending in parallel in a longitudinal direction and having plural, longitudinally spaced pairs of laterally aligned and opposing grooves in the interior, parallel sidewalls thereof;
• plural pairs of signal contact elements, the signal contact elements of each pair being arranged in a respective pair of laterally spaced grooves and the plural pairs thereof being arranged in a parallel, spaced relationship in a row in the longitudinal direction;
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• plural ground contact elements received in alternate relationship with the plural pairs of signal contact elements in respective pairs of laterally spaced grooves, each ground contact element having a profile, in a plane transverse to the row, which substantially matches a profile of each pair of signal contact elements, in a plane transverse to the row, such that each ground contact element overlaps each pair of signal contact elements arranged adjacent to said ground contact element and each ground contact element, arranged between two respective, adjacent pairs of signal contact elements, comprises a shield reducing cross talk between said respective adjacent pairs of signal contact elements;
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• each of said plurality of jack-type signal contact elements and said plurality of jack-type ground contact elements including respective, first contact ends in facing, opposed relationship with respect to each other so as to be slidingly connectable with corresponding signal and ground contacts of a counterpart plug-type connector and including respective, second contact ends extending to an exterior of said jack-type insulating body.

A jack-type connector having a balanced transmission line structure, comprising:

• a plurality of pairs of jack-type signal contact elements arranged in parallel, spaced relationship to each other in a row;
• a plurality of jack-type ground contact elements arranged alternately with said plurality of pairs of jack-type signal contact elements in said row, each ground contact element having a profile, in a plane transverse to the row, which substantially matches a profile of each of said signal contact elements, in a plane transverse to the row, such that each ground contact element overlaps each pair of signal contact elements adjacent to the ground contact element and comprises a shield reducing cross-talk therebetween;
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• a jack-type insulating body, made of an electrically insulating material and having a pair of spaced parallel walls with respective parallel grooves therein arranged in opposing, paired relationship, supporting said plurality of jack-type signal contact elements and said plurality of jack-type ground contact elements in alternate pairs of said opposing grooves, each said pair of signal contact elements and an adjacent, parallel ground contract element comprising a balanced transmission line;
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• each of said plurality of jack-type signal contact elements and said plurality of jack-type ground contact elements including respective, first contact ends in facing, opposed relationshio with resoect to each other so as to be slidingly connectable with corresoonding signal and ground contacts of a counter part plug-type and including respective, second contact ends extending to an exterior of said jack-type insulating body.