Communication jacks having longitudinally staggered jackwire contacts
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1. A Registered Jack-45 (“
- RJ-45”
) communications jack having a longitudinal axis, comprising;
a housing having a plug aperture that is configured to receive a mating RJ-45 plug along the longitudinal axis;
eight jackwire contacts that are arranged as four differential pairs of jackwire contacts, each of the jackwire contacts including a plug contact region that extends into the plug aperture;
wherein a first of the jackwire contacts is configured to engage a flat portion of a longitudinally extending surface of a first blade of the mating RJ-45 plug when the mating RJ-45 plug is fully received within the plug aperture, andwherein a plug contact region of a second of the jackwire contacts is staggered with respect to a plug contact region of the first of the jackwire contacts in the longitudinal direction.
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Abstract
Communications jacks include a housing having a plug aperture that is configured to receive a mating RJ-45 plug along a longitudinal axis and eight jackwire contacts that are arranged as four differential pairs of jackwire contacts, each of the jackwire contacts including a plug contact region that extends into the plug aperture. A first of the jackwire contacts is configured to engage a longitudinally extending surface of a first blade of a mating RJ-45 plug when the mating RJ-45 plug is fully received within the plug aperture.
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1. A Registered Jack-45 (“
- RJ-45”
) communications jack having a longitudinal axis, comprising;a housing having a plug aperture that is configured to receive a mating RJ-45 plug along the longitudinal axis; eight jackwire contacts that are arranged as four differential pairs of jackwire contacts, each of the jackwire contacts including a plug contact region that extends into the plug aperture; wherein a first of the jackwire contacts is configured to engage a flat portion of a longitudinally extending surface of a first blade of the mating RJ-45 plug when the mating RJ-45 plug is fully received within the plug aperture, and wherein a plug contact region of a second of the jackwire contacts is staggered with respect to a plug contact region of the first of the jackwire contacts in the longitudinal direction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A Registered Jack-45 (“
- RJ-45”
) communications jack, comprising;a housing having a plug aperture that defines a longitudinal plug insertion axis; a first jackwire contact, a second jackwire contact, a third jackwire contact, a fourth jackwire contact, a fifth jackwire contact, a sixth jackwire contact, a seventh jackwire contact and an eighth jackwire contact, the fourth and fifth jackwire contacts forming a first differential pair of jackwire contacts, the first and second jackwire contacts forming a second differential pair of jackwire contacts, the third and sixth jackwire contacts forming a third differential pair of jackwire contacts, and the seventh and eighth jackwire contacts forming a fourth differential pair of jackwire contacts, each of the first through eighth jackwire contacts including a plug contact region, the plug contact regions of the first through eighth jackwire contacts being positioned transversely across the plug aperture in numerical order, wherein the plug contact regions of at least some of the third through sixth jackwire contacts are staggered with respect to each other in the longitudinal direction so that the third jackwire contact couples at least as much with the fifth jackwire contact as it does with the fourth jackwire contact. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A communications jack, comprising:
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a housing having a plug aperture that defines a longitudinal plug insertion axis; a printed circuit board that is at least partially mounted within the housing; a plurality of longitudinally extending jackwire contacts that are disposed transversely across the plug aperture, wherein each jackwire contact has a base portion and a plug contact surface; a flexible printed circuit board that is mounted on at least two of the jackwire contacts, the flexible printed circuit board including at least one crosstalk compensation circuit, wherein the plug contact surfaces of a first subset of the jackwire contacts are substantially aligned in a first transverse row, and the plug contact surfaces of a second subset of the jackwire contacts are substantially aligned in a second transverse row that is offset from the first transverse row. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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