Communication jacks having longitudinally staggered jackwire contacts

摘要

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.

主权项

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.