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Communications connectors with jackwire contacts and printed circuit boards

  • US 7,591,686 B2
  • Filed: 04/18/2006
  • Issued: 09/22/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communications connector having a plurality of signal carrying paths, the communications connector comprising:

  • a printed circuit board that includes a plurality of openings in a first surface thereof, a plurality of contact pads that are spaced apart from the plurality of openings, a plurality of output terminals, and a plurality of conductive paths that connect at least some of the plurality of contact pads to respective ones of the plurality of output terminals; and

    a plurality of contacts, each contact having a plug contact region, a pad contact region that is in an elastically mobile region of each respective contact and that is arranged to mate with a respective one of the plurality of contact pads and a termination end that is mounted in a respective one of the plurality of openings in the first surface of the printed circuit board,wherein a first of the plurality of signal carrying paths extends from the plug contact region of a first of the plurality of contacts to a first of the plurality of output terminals through a first of the contact pads and a first of the conductive paths.

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