Jack and path cord connector assembly - provides patch field and monitoring connections using appropriate interconnections between PCB and contact springs

摘要

The socket jack comprises a printed circuit board or card and circuit- making contact springs. The contact springs contact and coact with printed circuit conductors or elements on the printed circuit board to establish mutually insulated normal through circuits or current conducting paths each terminating at opposite ends in two terminals. The terminals of the normal through circuits are adapted to be connected to electrical equip. or electrical circuits located outside the jack. The contact springs are actuable by reception of a patch cord plug in the jack to open or break the normal through circuits so disconnecting the terminals of the normal through circuits from the second terminals. The normal through circuits may terminate at opposite ends in a pair of multi-terminal connectors. These multi-terminal connectors may be mounted directly on the printed circuit board. The invention may be used for interconnecting circuits of computers on data communication equip. like modems.