Patent ID: 7448920

Claim:
A connector for terminating a communications cable comprising a plurality of twisted pairs of wires, the connector comprising: an interconnection module comprised of a nonconductive body having a plurality of IDC terminals with legs arranged substantially at right angles to the body; a cover comprised of a non conductive housing comprising a pair of raised opposed generally parallel elongate terminal housing blocks, said elongate terminal housing blocks defining a front insertion region there between, a rear insertion region defined in a rear of the housing for receiving the interconnection module therein; each of said elongate terminal housing blocks housing some of the plurality of IDC terminals such that said IDC terminals are aligned with said elongate terminal blocks; each of said elongate terminal housing blocks further comprising a plurality of pairs of transverse IDC terminal accessing slots wherein one of said slots is aligned with a conductor receiving bifurcation of each of said IDC terminals; and a wire lead guide positioned within said front insertion region, said guide comprised of a guide body and a plurality of non-intersecting passageways through said body; wherein each of the twisted pairs of wires is guided through a corresponding one of said passageways prior to insertion into a corresponding pair of said slots and termination of the twisted pair by said IDC terminals aligned with said corresponding slots and wherein each twisted pair enters said corresponding passageway in a direction substantially at right angles to a direction the twisted pair exits said corresponding passageway.