Patent ID: 8961239
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H01R,H05K

Abstract:
1. A communications jack, comprising: a housing having a plug aperture in a front portion thereof; a flexible printed circuit board having a plurality of conductive paths, the flexible printed circuit board being at least partly within the housing; a plurality of input contacts that extend upwardly from the flexible printed circuit board and that are electrically connected to respective ones of the conductive paths on the flexible printed circuit board; a plurality of output contacts that are electrically connected to respective ones of the conductive paths on the flexible printed circuit board; and a spring that is separate from the input contacts and that biases at least a first of the input contacts, the spring being electrically isolated from the input contacts, wherein each of the input contacts comprises a separate, raised contact that is fixed to the flexible printed circuit board, wherein each of the input contacts includes a respective plug contact region that is within the plug aperture, and wherein signal current carrying paths from the plug contact regions of the respective input contacts to the flexible printed circuit board pass through portions of the respective input contacts that are fixed to the flexible printed circuit board.