Patent ID: 6361367
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A plug connector for balanced transmission, comprising:an electrically insulating body including a housing with a lower bracket; a plurality of ground contact elements supported by said housing and arranged in an array, each of said ground contact elements having a plate-like extension portion and two ground terminals extending vertically from said plate-like extension portion; and a plurality of pairs of pin-shaped first and second angled signal contact elements disposed such that there is a substantially equal separation between said first angled-signal contact element and said second angled-signal contact element over a major portion of a length of said first and second angled-signal contact elements being supported by a protruded insulation part provided in said substantially equal separation and arranged alternately with said ground contact elements in said array, said first and second angled signal contact elements being arranged at positions opposing said plate-like extension portion, and with said second angled signal contact elements having horizontal portions covered by said lower bracket, wherein vertical portions of said first and second angled signal contact elements and said ground contact elements are inserted into said lower bracket and protrude from said lower bracket.