Data cable connector module for assembly to cable with a fixation element for positioning and fixing of cable conductors of a multi core cable

• US 9,450,326 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kerpen Datacom GmbH
• Original Assignee: Leoni Kabel Holding GmbH (Leoni AG)
• Inventors: Engels, Yvan, Klees, Ernst, Zellner, Joachim, Schuh, Wolfgang
• Primary Examiner(s): Prasad, Chandrika
• Application Number:
  US13/836,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20130203282A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,285 Days
• Field of Search: 439/389, 439/404, 439/405, 439/417, 439/676, 439/607.08, 439/607.413
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/502 composed of different pieces H01R13/514 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/506 assembled by snap action of the parts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6461 Means for preventing cross-talk
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6585 Shielding material individually surrounding or interposed between mutually spaced contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6586 for separating multiple connector modules
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/64 for high frequency, e.g. RJ 45
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2433 one part of the base being movable to push the cable into the slot

Abstract

A data cable connector module with a fixation element for positioning and fixation of cable conductors of a multi core cable, with: conductor receiving units with conductor guide and connection openings for bent IDCs, IDC receiving units for fixation of connected IDCs with contact openings; a centric metallic shield star which shields each conductor pair and is electrically conductively connected with the housing of the fixation element; and a detachably connectable, changeable contact module with a metal housing, an isolation socket for receiving bent slide contacts with connector ends for connection to a circuit board which connects the slide contacts and the module plug-in contacts, a front connector face for external connectors; and a fixation element connector face with in at least one end isolator block guided module plug-in contacts. The fixation element and the contact module are electrically conductively connectable with the IDCs.

Claims

1. A data cable connector module, comprising:

a fixation element 3 for positioning and fixing of cable conductors 1 of a multi-core cable, and which is connected to an end of the multi-core cable, with;

conductor receiving units 16 with a conductor guide 13 and connection openings for bent insulation-displacement connectors 14,

insulation-displacement connector receiving units 18 with contact openings for reception of connected insulation-displacement connectors 14;

a centric metallic shield star 5, which shields each pair of the conductors of the multi-core cable relative to other pairs of the conductors of the multi-core cable and has an electrically conductive connection to a fixation element housing 4;

the fixation element housing 4; and

a detachable, connectable to the fixation element, changeable contact module 7 with

a contact module metal housing 8,

an isolation socket 32 arranged in the contact module metal housing 9 for reception of bent slide contacts 10 with contact ends 6 for connection with a circuit board 20;

the circuit board 20 being positioned between the slide contacts 10 and the module plug-in contacts 12, and which connects the contact ends of the slide contacts 10 with the module plug-in contacts 12;

a front connector face for external connectors 9; and

an isolator block 31 receiving at least one end of plug-in contacts 12 at one face and being connectable to the fixation element 3 at an opposite face,

whereby the fixation element 3 and the contact module 7 are constructed in a form that can be brought into contact by establishing an electrically conductive connection of the module plug-in contacts 12 with the insulation-displacement connectors 14, so that the cable conductors 1 connected to the fixation element 3 are in an electrically conductive connection with the slide contacts of the contact module 7.

2. The data cable connector module according to claim 1, wherein the fixation element is polygonal.