Patent ID: 8951072
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
1. A Registered Jack-45 (“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; eight jackwire contacts that are arranged as four differential pairs of jackwire contacts, each of the jackwire contacts including a plug contact region that extends into the plug aperture; wherein a first of the jackwire contacts is configured to engage a flat portion of a longitudinally extending surface of a first blade of the mating RJ-45 plug when the mating RJ-45 plug is fully received within the plug aperture, and wherein a plug contact region of a second of the jackwire contacts is staggered with respect to a plug contact region of the first of the jackwire contacts in the longitudinal direction.