Patent ID: 7591686
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A communications connector having a plurality of signal carrying paths, the communications connector comprising: a printed circuit board that includes a plurality of openings in a first surface thereof, a plurality of contact pads that are spaced apart from the plurality of openings, a plurality of output terminals, and a plurality of conductive paths that connect at least some of the plurality of contact pads to respective ones of the plurality of output terminals; and a plurality of contacts, each contact having a plug contact region, a pad contact region that is in an elastically mobile region of each respective contact and that is arranged to mate with a respective one of the plurality of contact pads and a termination end that is mounted in a respective one of the plurality of openings in the first surface of the printed circuit board, wherein a first of the plurality of signal carrying paths extends from the plug contact region of a first of the plurality of contacts to a first of the plurality of output terminals through a first of the contact pads and a first of the conductive paths.