Patent ID: 6719588
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A modular jack, comprising:a dielectric housing having a pair of opposite side walls, opposite top and bottom walls with a room defined therewithin; a terminal module assembled in the room of the housing, and including a dielectric plate and a plurality of terminals insert molded in the plate; and interlocking means arranged between the housing and the terminal module, thereby preventing the terminal module from offsetting from the housing; wherein the interlocking means are a pair of first locking means defined on an upper surface of the bottom wall of the housing and a pair of second locking means defined on a lower surface of the plate of the terminal module; wherein the first locking means is a protrusion having a trapezium shape seeing from side thereof, and the second locking means is a slot; wherein each side wall of the housing has a first guide channel defined on a lower portion of an inner surface thereof, and the plate of the terminal module has a pair of first guide slips defined on opposite side edges thereof, corresponding to the first guide channels; wherein the bottom wall of the housing has second guide channels defined on the upper surface thereof, and the plate of the terminal module has second guide slips defined on the lower surface thereof, corresponding to the second guide channels.