Communication jack having a plurality of contacts mounted on a flexible printed circuit board

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8961239
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13803660

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Communications jacks include a housing having a plug aperture in a front portion thereof and a flexible printed circuit board having a plurality of conductive paths thereon. A plurality of input contacts and a plurality of output contacts are each electrically connected to respective ones of the conductive paths on the flexible printed circuit board. A spring that is separate from the input contacts is connected to at least a first of the input contacts. Each of the input contacts comprises a separate, raised contact that is connected to the flexible printed circuit board and mounted to extend into the plug aperture.

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  • COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bertoncini, Daniel Allen, US 1 12
Lin, Chen-Chien - 4 9
Moffitt, Bryan S Red Bank, US 19 608
Shih, Yi-Teh Richardson, US 6 79

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