Patent ID: 9742117
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H01R,H05K

Claim:
1. An RJ-45 communications jack having a longitudinal axis, comprising: a housing having a plug aperture that is configured to receive a mating RJ-45 plug along the longitudinal axis; a flexible printed circuit board having a first conductive path and a second conductive path that form a first differential pair of conductive paths and a third conductive path and a fourth conductive path that form a second differential pair of conductive paths; a first jackwire contact that is electrically connected to the first conductive path; a second jackwire contact that is electrically connected to the second conductive path; a third jackwire contact that is electrically connected to the third conductive path; a fourth jackwire contact that is electrically connected to the fourth conductive path; wherein a section of the first conductive path is on a first side of the flexible printed circuit board and a section of the third conductive path is on a second side of the flexible printed circuit board that is opposite the first side, and wherein the section of the first conductive path and the section of the third conductive path are configured to form a coupling section in which the first and third conductive paths both inductively and capacitively couple.