Patent ID: 6065994
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
An electrical connector comprising two or more pairs of conductors, each pair consisting of a TIP conductor and a RING conductor, wherein:at a mating end of the connector, the TIP and RING conductors for all of the pairs of conductors are aligned in an alternating sequence with the TIP and RING conductors of each pair immediately adjacent to one another;at a cable end of the connector, the TIP conductors for all of the pairs of conductors are aligned in a first row of conductors;at the cable end of the connector, the RING conductors for all of the pairs of conductors are aligned in a second row of conductors substantially parallel to and offset from the first row of conductors; andfrom the mating end to the cable end of the connector, each pair of conductors rotates approximately 90.degree. within its own volume and without its conductors crossing over each other or any conductor of another pair in the connector, wherein:the connector provides (a) crosstalk compensation between each pair of conductors within the connector and every other pair of conductors within the connector as well as (b) crosstalk compensation between each pair of conductors within the connector and every pair of conductors within another such connector configured side by side with the connector such that the rows of conductors at the mating end and the cable end between the two connectors are substantially colinear.