Patent ID: 9692180
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H01R,H05K

Claim:
1. An electrical connector comprising: mating conductors configured to engage plug contacts from a modular plug at a mating interface, the mating conductors comprising differential pairs; and a circuit board having associated pairs of input and output terminals and signal traces that electrically connect the associated pairs of input and output terminals, the input terminals being communicatively coupled to the mating conductors and the output terminals being configured to communicatively couple to cable conductors of a communication cable; wherein each associated pair of input and output terminals is electrically connected through a corresponding signal trace that has a conductive path extending between the corresponding input and output terminals, at least two signal traces forming a broadside-coupling region in which the at least two signal traces are spaced apart from one another along an orientation axis, the at least two signal traces extending parallel to each other through the broadside-coupling region for a crosstalk-reducing distance, the at least two signal traces being electrically connected to separate differential pairs.