Modular cable termination plug

• US 7,374,458 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2007
• Issued: 05/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Panduit Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panduit Corporation
• Inventors: Caveney, Jack E., Doorhy, Michael V., Martino, Nicholas G., Dylkiewicz, David A., German, Jason J.
• Primary Examiner(s): DUVERNE, JEAN F
• Application Number:
  US11/619,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20070105453A1
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 439/676, 439/941, 439/418, 439/460, 439/404, 439/731
• US Class Current: 439/676
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/514 composed as a modular blocks or assembly, i.e. composed of co-operating parts provided with contact members or holding contact members between them
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/5812 the cable clamping being achieved by mounting the separate part on the housing of the coupling device
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6463 using twisted pairs of wires
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/64 for high frequency, e.g. RJ 45
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2404 the contact members having teeth, prongs, pins or needles penetrating the insulation

Abstract

The invention is a modular cable termination plug having a conductor divider having an entrant barb and a plurality of divider channels, a load bar having a plurality of through holes and a plurality of slots, and a plurality of contact terminals. Additionally, the invention may include a housing, a strain relief collar and a strain relief boot.

Claims

1. A modular plug for terminating a cable having a plurality of twisted signal pairs of conductors held therein, comprising:

a housing; and

a conductor divider comprising a plurality of divider channels for separating and arranging signal pairs of conductors and further comprising a dual post entrant barb, the conductor divider disposed in the housing such that the dual post entrant barb extends toward a cable end of the housing to be inserted into the cable.

2. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of divider channels has a tapered side wall.

3. The modular plug of claim 2 wherein the tapered side wall is adapted to receive a signal pair of conductors and alter the position of the signal pair of conductors.

4. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein at least one of said divider channels of said conductor divider has retention bumps.

5. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein said plurality of divider channels comprises at least two side divider channels each having an opening at a side of the conductor divider, an upper divider channel having an opening at a top portion of the conductor divider, and a lower divider channel having an opening at a bottom portion of the conductor divider.

6. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein the conductor divider separates and arranges the signal pairs of conductors into a plurality of planes.

7. The modular plug of claim 6 wherein the conductor divider separates and arranges the signal pairs of conductors into three horizontal planes.

8. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein posts of the dual post entrant barb taper with increasing distance toward the cable end of the housing.

9. The modular plug of claim 2 wherein the tapered side wall extends substantially the entire length of the at least one of the plurality of divider channels.

10. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein the dual post entrant barb extends from an end of the plurality of divider channels.

11. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein at least one of the plurality of divider channels contains a tapered split positioned at one end of the at least one of the plurally of divider channels such that the at least one of the plurality of divider channels is divided into multiple channels.

12. The modular plug of claim 1 wherein the conductor divider is separable from the housing.