Interconnect module

• US 6,890,187 B2
• Filed: 01/24/2003
• Issued: 05/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CommScope Technologies, LLC (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ADC Telecommunications Incorporated (TE Connectivity Limited)
• Inventors: Norris, Jeffrey J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bradley, P. Austin
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUONGCHI T
• Application Number:
  US10/350,895
• Publication Number:
  US 20030171037A1
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• Field of Search: 439/76, 439/76.1, 439/74, 439/638, 439/76.2, 361/788, 361/730, 361/752, 361/797
• US Class Current: 439/76.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/585 Terminals having a press fit or a compliant portion and a shank passing through a hole in the printed circuit board
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1452 Mounting of connectors; Switching; Reinforcing of back panels

Abstract

A mount apparatus includes a separate spring contact and wire wrap pin assembly as well as having a sandwich construction to prevent the spring contact and wire wrap pin from being pushed out of their retention positions. In one embodiment, a mount apparatus includes a front cover having a plurality of receptacles, a back cover having a plurality of through holes, and a circuit board assembly sandwiched between the front cover and the back cover. The circuit board assembly includes a board having a plurality of through holes aligned with the receptacles of the front cover and the through holes of the back cover, a plurality of contacts retained in a first set of the through holes of the board of the circuit board assembly, and a plurality of pins retained in a second set of the through holes of the board of the circuit board assembly. A first end of each contact is extended towards and exposed in a corresponding receptacle of the front cover and stopped by the front cover, and a second end of each contact is extended towards and stopped by the back cover. A first end of each pin is extended towards and stopped by the front cover, and a second end of each pin is extended towards and projected from a corresponding through hole of the back cover. Further, the circuit board assembly includes a trace electrically connecting each contact to each corresponding pin.

Claims

1. A mount apparatus for use in a cross-connect system, the mount apparatus comprising:

a) a front side and a back side;

b) a circuit board positioned between the front side and the back side;

c) jack circuit board contacts electrically connected to the circuit board and accessible from the front side;

d) wire wrap pins electrically connected to the circuit board and accessible from the back side;

e) wherein the wire wrap pins are arranged such that the pins are prevented from extending through the front side.

2. The mount apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wire wrap pins are accessible only from the back side.

3. The mount apparatus of claim 1, wherein the front side is defined by a front piece, the front piece including an inner side opposite the front side, the wire wrap pins being arranged to contact a surface of the inner side of the front piece to prevent the wire wrap pins from extending through the front side.

4. The mount apparatus of claim 1, wherein the front side includes a front grid, the front grid defining a plurality of jack circuit board receptacles, the jack circuit board contacts being positioned within the jack circuit board receptacles of the front grid.

5. The mount apparatus of claim 4, wherein the wire wrap pins contact grid structure arranged between the jack circuit board receptacles of the front grid to prevent the wire wrap pins from extending though the front grid.

6. The mount apparatus of claim 1, wherein wire wrap pins are positioned within a plurality of first through hole arrays formed in the circuit board, and the jack circuit board contacts are positioned within a plurality of second through hole arrays formed in the circuit board, and wherein at least one of the first through hole arrays is positioned between two second through hole arrays.

7. The mount apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first and second through hole arrays are arranged in an alternating vertical manner.

8. The mount apparatus of claim 6, wherein the front side further includes jack circuit board receptacles, the jack circuit board receptacles being aligned with the plurality of second through hole arrays formed in the circuit board.

9. The mount apparatus of claim 6, wherein the front side further includes jack circuit board receptacles, the jack circuit board receptacles being offset from the plurality of first through hole arrays formed in the circuit board.

10. A mount apparatus for use in a cross-connect system, the mount apparatus comprising:

a) a front side and a back side, the front side including jack circuit board receptacles, the back side including an array of through holes;

b) a circuit board positioned between the front side and the back side;

c) jack circuit board contacts positioned within the jack circuit board receptacles and electrically interconnected to the circuit board;

d) wire wrap pins positioned within the array of through holes of the back side and electrically interconnected to the circuit board, the array of through holes being aligned between the jack circuit board receptacles and arranged such that the wire wrap pins are offset from the jack circuit board receptacles to limit insertion of the wire wrap pins through the back side.

11. The mount apparatus of claim 10, wherein the front side includes a front piece, the front piece including an inner side opposite the front side, the wire wrap pins being arranged to contact a surface of the inner side of the front piece to limit insertion of the wire wrap pins through the back side.

12. The mount apparatus of claim 10, wherein wire wrap pins are positioned within a plurality of first contact hole arrays formed in the circuit board, and the jack circuit board contacts are positioned with a plurality of second contact hole arrays formed in the circuit board, and wherein at least one of the first contact hole arrays is positioned between two second contact hole arrays.

13. The mount apparatus of claim 12, wherein the first and second contact hole arrays are arranged in an alternating vertical manner.

14. The mount apparatus of claim 13, wherein the jack circuit board receptacles of the front side are aligned with the second contact hole arrays formed in the circuit board.

15. The mount apparatus of claim 13, wherein the jack circuit board receptacles of the first side are offset from the first contact hole arrays formed in the circuit board.