Back to results
US 7,125,288 B2Granted
Preventing damage to RJ jacks from improper plug insertion
AssigneeBel-Fuse, Inc.
InventorRobert Schilling
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An RJ jack includes a housing having an interior chamber with a plurality of contacts which are deflectable upon insertion of a plug into the chamber. A plurality of projections is provided for limiting the extent of the deflection of selected contacts. In a preferred embodiment, the RJ jack is an RJ45 and the projections are fins located beneath the outermost contacts of the RJ45 jack.
Claims4
An RJ jack, comprising
- a housing having an interior chamber;
- a plurality of contacts in the chamber, the contacts comprising a pair of outermost contacts and at least one middle contact and being deflectable upon insertion of a plug;
- and
- a plurality of projections for limiting the extent of the deflection of only the outermost contacts, wherein the outermost contacts have a downward deflection from a non-deflected height to a predetermined deflected height above a floor of the housing and the projections are at a height below the predetermined deflected height.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.