Patent ID: 6050842
Filing Date: 2000-04-18
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
An electrical connector for use with first and second wire pairs, the connector comprising: a dielectric housing which holds first, second, third and fourth discrete terminals aligned in single row and adjacent to one another, each including a planar section having a wire contact slot, the housing having four wire channels which open into the housing and intersect respective ones of the wire contact slots, the wire channels extending parallel to each other in a longitudinal direction and the planar sections of the terminals being inclined with respect to the longitudinal direction, the planer section of the first terminal partially overlaps the planar section of the second terminal and the planar section of the third terminal partially overlaps the planer section of the fourth terminal, the first and second terminals comprising a first terminal pair for attachment to the first wire pair, a centerline of the first terminal being spaced from a centerline of the second terminal by a first distance, the third and fourth terminals comprising a second terminal pair for attachment to the second wire pair, a centerline of the third terminal being spaced from a centerline of the fourth terminal by a distance which is the same as the first distance, and the centerline of the second terminal being spaced from the centerline of the third terminal by a second distance which is greater than the first distance to reduce crosstalk between the first and the second terminal pairs and the first and second wire pairs.