Communication jacks having longitudinally staggered jackwire contacts

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8951072
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13802840

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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.

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  • COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fitzpatrick, Brian J McKinney, US 48 336
Hashim, Amid Plano, US 24 849
Larsen, Wayne D Wylie, US 28 868

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