Patent ID: 6482039
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A telecommunications switching jack comprising:a housing with an opening for receiving a telecommunications plug connector, the opening defining a linear insertion axis; a plurality of first connectors; a contact spring electrically connected with each first connector; a second connector corresponding to each first connector; a normal contact corresponding to each second connector; the jack having a normal through condition wherein each contact spring is arranged to make electrical contact with and exert force upon the normal contact at a contact point, the normal contact being electrically linked with the corresponding second connector in the normal through condition, resulting in corresponding first and second connectors being electrically linked; the jack being moveable from the normal through condition to a switched condition by insertion of the telecommunications plug connector into the opening along the insertion axis; wherein with the jack in the normal through condition, inserting the telecommunications plug connector into the opening. along the insertion axis will bring the telecommunications plug connector into contact with the contact springs, displacing the contact point without breaking the normal through condition and then displacing the contact point sufficiently to break the electrical link between the first and second connectors, placing the jack in the switched condition.