Patent ID: 6206711
Filing Date: 2001-03-27
Classification: H01R,H02G

Abstract:
A process of forming a telecommunications/data link and connector assembly, the process comprising the steps of:providing a contact alignment body with grooves for contacts and spaces for receiving wire side contact ends;positioning contacts in said grooves, said contacts having wire contact ends extending into said wire contact and receiving spaces and having interface ends;providing a contact displacement member connected to said interface ends of at least some of said contacts;providing wire guides with a plurality of wire channels, said wire guides having a cable end of a small width and a contact alignment body end of a larger width, said wire channels providing a wire path of substantially identical lengths extending from said cable end to said contact alignment body end;providing a cable with wire terminal ends;disposing said wire terminal ends in said wire channels of said wire guide in a contact portion of said terminal ends extending out of said wire channels;electrically connecting said contact portions with corresponding contacts, at wire side ends of said contacts; andjoining said cable, said wire guide and said contact displacement assembly with an overlay molded housing by positioning a portion of said cable, said wire guide and a portion of said contact displacement assembly in a mold and injecting material in said mold to form said overlay molded housing.