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US 8,382,528 B2Granted
Jack assembly with vertically staggered jack bores
AssigneeADC Telecommunications, Inc.
InventorsRoy Lee Henneberger, James D. Dewey, Ahmad R. Sajadi
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a jack assembly including a jack mount having a front side and a rear side. A jack of the assembly is adapted to be slidably mounted in a jack receiving region of the jack mount. The jack assembly also includes a plurality of cross-connect contacts, and a rear interface assembly. The rear interface assembly includes a dielectric cover piece and a plurality of rear connectors that project outward from the dielectric cover piece.
Claims21
A cross-connect assembly comprising:
- a plurality of jacks each including a separate jack body, each separate jack body being formed of a dielectric material, the dielectric material of each jack body defining a plurality of bores sized to receive standard tip-and-ring plugs having tip and ring contacts, each jack including a plurality of electrically conductive tip and ring springs, the tip springs being adapted to make electrical contact with the tip contacts of the plugs when the plugs are inserted within the bores, and the ring springs being adapted to make electrical contact with the ring contacts of the plugs when the plugs are inserted within the bores, each jack including a plurality of normal contacts adapted to normally make electrical contact with the tip and ring springs;
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- adjacent jack bodies having different port positioning such that the bores defined by the adjacent jack bodies are vertically staggered relative to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.