Communications connectors having electrically parallel sets of contacts

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9112320
APP PUB NO 20130225009A1
SERIAL NO

13737974

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Communications connectors include a plurality of input contacts that are arranged as differential pairs of input contacts, a plurality of first output contacts that are electrically connected to respective ones of the plurality of input contacts, and a first pair of second output contacts that are electrically connected by a pair of conductive paths to one of the differential pairs of input contacts. The first output contacts are configured to physically contact respective ones of a plurality of first contacts of a second communications connector. Moreover, each contact of the first pair of second output contacts is electrically in parallel to a respective one of the first output contacts when the communications connector is mated with the second communications connector.

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  • COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hashim, Amid Plano, US 24 849
Heckmann, David L Richardson, US 1 14
Herman, Carl Todd Lewisville, US 1 14
Larsen, Wayne D Wylie, US 28 868
Liang, Hongwei Plano, US 15 120
Michaelis, Scott L Plano, US 17 189
Schumacher, Richard A Dallas, US 58 819

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