Patent ID: 8864532
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An RJ-45 communications jack, comprising: a housing having a plug aperture; first through eighth jackwire contacts, each of which has a plug contact region, the plug contact regions of the first through eighth jackwire contacts being aligned in numerical order across the plug aperture; a printed circuit board; first through eighth output contacts that intercept the printed circuit board at a first through eighth intercepts respectively; wherein the printed circuit board has a front edge that extends toward an opening in the plug aperture, a rear edge opposite the front edge, and first and second side edges that extend between the front and rear edges, the printed circuit board including first and second conductive paths that are arranged as a second differential pair of conductive paths that electrically connect the first and second jackwire contacts to the respective first and second output contacts, seventh and eighth conductive paths that are arranged as a fourth differential pair of conductive paths that electrically connect the seventh and eighth jackwire contacts to the respective seventh and eighth output contacts, fourth and fifth conductive paths that are arranged as a first differential pair of conductive paths that electrically connect the fourth and fifth jackwire contacts to the respective fourth and fifth output contacts, and third and six conductive paths that are arranged as a third differential pair of conductive paths that electrically connect the third and sixth jackwire contacts to the respective third and sixth output contacts; wherein the second differential pair of output contacts are positioned along the first side edge and the fourth differential pair of output contacts are positioned along the second side edge, generally opposite the second differential pair of output contacts, wherein the first differential pair of output contacts are positioned forward of the second and fourth differential pairs of output contacts, and the third differential pair of output contacts are positioned generally opposite the first differential pair of output contacts forward of the second and fourth differential pairs of output contacts, and wherein the first differential pair of output contacts is closer to the third differential pair of output contacts than the second differential pair of output contacts is to the fourth differential pair of output contacts.