Patent ID: 6065985
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A modular jack assembly comprising:(a) an outer insulative housing having top and bottom walls and opposed lateral walls forming an interior section and first and second ends and there being an interior medial wall extending from the bottom wall toward the top wall having an upper terminal edge in spaced relation from the upper wall and a plurality of spaced vertical interior medial wall extensions extending upwardly from said upper edge to form a plurality of contact receiving recesses each of which recesses is interposed between adjacent interior medial wall extensions;(b) a flexible shorting means having a first longitudinal insulative strip and a second longitudinal insulative strip with a plurality of insulative spaced parallel transverse strips interposed between said first and second longitudinal strips forming a plurality of transverse openings between said first and second longitudinal strip and a conductive means having a pair of transverse conductive legs each of which pair of transverse conductive legs is superimposed over a separate one of said transverse strips and a longitudinal conductive section is superimposed over one of the longitudinal strips and connecting said pair of transverse conductive legs, and said flexible shorting means is superimposed over the medial interior wall such that the transverse strips are each positioned in a separate one of said contact receiving recesses on the interior medial wall of the outer insulative housing; and(c) a plurality of generally parallel conductive contacts first extending generally from adjacent the bottom wall of the insulative housing across the second end of the housing to the top wall and then generally horizontally toward the first end of the housing and then obliquely toward the second end of the housing such that each of said conductive contacts is positioned in one of said contact receiving recesses on the interior medial wall of the outer insulative housing.