Patent ID: 7824231
Filing Date: 2010-11-02
Classification: H01R,H05K,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A communications outlet including eight outlet tines positioned adjacent to one another and defining four pairs of outlet tines, the fourth and fifth outlet tines defining a first pair, the first and second outlet tines defining a second pair, the third and sixth outlet tines defining a third pair, and the seventh and eighth outlet tines defining a fourth pair, each outlet tine having a free end near which a plug tine is adapted to contact the outlet tine and each outlet tine having a fixed end coupled through a corresponding conductive tine to a corresponding electrical contact, the communications outlet comprising a first internal crosstalk compensation stage having a plurality of conductive fingers, each conductive finger being physically connected to a corresponding one of the outlet tines proximate the free ends of the tines, the first internal crosstalk compensation stage operable to provide positive compensation for internal crosstalk between pairs corresponding to the tines to which the conductive fingers of a flexible printed circuit board are connected.