Balanced Pin and Socket Connectors

摘要

Communications connectors include a housing and a plurality of substantially rigid conductive pins that are mounted in the housing. The conductive pins are arranged as a plurality of differential pairs of conductive pins that each include a tip conductive pin and a ring conductive pin. Each conductive pin has a first end that is configured to be received within a respective socket of a mating connector and a second end. The tip conductive pin of each differential pair of conductive pins crosses over its associated ring conductive pin to form a plurality of tip-ring crossover locations

主权项

1. A communications connector, comprising:
a housing; a plurality of contacts that are mounted in the housing, the contacts arranged as a plurality of differential pairs of contacts, each differential pair of contacts including a tip contact and a ring contact; wherein each contact has a first end section, a second end section, a middle portion that is between the first end section and the second end section, a first jogged section that is between the first end section and the middle portion and a second jogged section that is between the middle portion and the second end section, wherein the first jogged section of each tip contact jogs in a positive direction along a first direction from the middle section and the first jogged section of each ring contact jogs in a negative direction along the first direction from the middle section.