Method and apparatus for zone cabling

• US 7,163,416 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2006
• Issued: 01/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James Allen Carroll
• Original Assignee: James Allen Carroll
• Inventors: Carroll, James Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilman; Alexander
• Application Number:
  US11/325,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20060105613A1
• Time in Patent Office: 377 Days
• Field of Search: 439/404, 439/417, 439/418, 439/676, 439/409, 439/410, 298/61, 298/65, 298/21
• US Class Current: 439/404
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/67 insulation penetrating terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/582 the cable being clamped between assembled parts of the housing
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/16 for telephony
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/64 for high frequency, e.g. RJ 45
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2406 having needles or pins
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/01 for connecting unstripped conductors to contact members having insulation cutting edges
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/28 for wire processing before connecting to contact members, not provided for in groups H01R43/02 - H01R43/26
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49174 Assembling terminal to elongated conductor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49185 of terminal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4919 Through insulation

Abstract

A factory installed wiring guide that guides conductors into position for quality termination and crimp and which provides strain relief (support) for the wires or fibers and the outer sheath of the cable to create a quality cable or sub-cable assembly supporting termination at both ends of the cable. The wiring guide is sized to overcome obstacles and fit into conduits during network wiring installation. The wiring guide may be inserted into a cavity on the backside of a RJ45 female connector, completing the termination of a station cable to a RJ45 female jack. The wiring guide may be installed into a plastic housing creating a RJ45 male connector. The wiring guide may be utilized for multiple connections without damaging or compromising the wiring guide and without the need for cutting the wire from the sub-connector. The wiring guide supports universal attachment to either male or female RJ45 connectors.

Claims

1. A reusable connector for use with a female RJ style jack, the reusable connector for connection to the ends of twisted pair conductors in a twisted pair cable and also for connection to the side of the RJ style jack opposing the female RJ style connection such that the RJ style jack is established in electrically conductive relation with the twisted pair conductors, the reusable connector, said RJ style jack having a plurality of electrodes, the reusable connector comprising;

a base element having a plurality of conductor receiving receptacles for maintaining twisted pair conductors in a substantially fixed spatial relationship to each other;

a second element, having conductive elements, for engaging said conductors and immobilizing them from being withdrawn from said conductor receiving receptacles;

the conductive elements having piercing members capable of piercing the conductors for conducting signal from the conductors to the conductive elements;

the conductive elements of the second element being aligned such that they engage the plurality of electrodes on the RJ style jack when the second element is brought together with the RJ style jack; and

locking members on said connector for maintaining said cap in intimate engagement with said RJ style jack; and

in which the reusable connector is adapted to be connected to the RJ style jack by movement in a direction substantially at a right angle to a long axis of the conductors.

2. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a strain relief securable to the twisted pair cable.

3. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 1, in which the base element and the second element joined together are dimensioned to pass through a twelve millimeter conduit.

4. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 1, in which the base element and the second element joined together are dimensioned to pass through a six millimeter conduit.

5. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a cap and in which the conductive elements pass through apertures in the cap and pierce the conductors to make electrical and mechanical connection.

6. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 1, in which the second element comprises a substantially planar plate of nonconductive material having a first side and a second side pierced by the conducting elements tat align with the plurality of grooves on the first side.

7. The wiring cage as claimed in claim 1, in which the conductor receiving receptacles defined by the base element are substantially cylindrical in shape and having an opening substantially parallel to a long axis of the cylinder, the opening being narrower than a diameter of the cylinder shape.

8. A reusable connector for use with a female RJ style jack, the reusable connector for connection to the ends of twisted pair conductors in a twisted pair cable and also for connection to the back side of the RJ style jack such that the RJ style jack is established in electrically conductive relation with the twisted pair conductors, said RJ style jack having a plurality of electrodes, the reusable connector comprising;

a base element having means for maintaining twisted pair conductors in a substantially fixed spatial relationship to each other;

a second element, having conductive means for engaging said conductors and means for substantially immobilizing the conductors from being withdrawn;

the conductive means having means for piercing the conductors for conducting signal from the conductors to the conductive means;

conductive elements of the second element being aligned such that they engage the plurality of electrodes on the RJ style jack when the second element is brought together with the RJ style jack; and

means for locking on said connector to maintain intimate engagement with said RJ style jack; and

in which the reusable connector is adapted to be connected to the RJ style jack by movement in a direction substantially at a right angle to a long axis of the conductors.

9. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 8, further comprising means for strain relief securable to the twisted pair cable.

10. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 8, in which the base element and the second element, when assembled, are dimensioned to pass through a twelve millimeter conduit.

11. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 8, in which the base element and the second element, when assembled, are dimensioned to pass through a six millimeter conduit.

12. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 8, further comprising a cap and in which the conductive means passes through apertures in the cap and pierces the conductors to make electrical and mechanical connection.

13. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 8, in which the second element comprises a substantially planar plate of nonconductive material having a first side and a second side pierced by the conducting elements that align with the plurality of grooves on the first side.

14. The reusable connector as claimed in claim 8, in which the means for substantially immobilizing defined by the base element are substantially cylindrical in shape and have an opening substantially parallel to a long axis of the cylinder, the opening being narrower than a diameter of the cylinder shape.