Patent ID: 7867033

Claim:
A branch connector located at a position where a branch line is connectedly branched from a main line constituting a communication circuit, comprising: inside a connector housing thereof, one or a plurality of bus bars each having a joint part long and narrow and a plurality of electric wire connection terminal parts projected by spacing said electric wire connection terminal parts at a certain interval from said joint part in a longitudinal direction thereof; a plurality of cylindrical insulation parts each having a hollow portion through which one of said electric wire connection terminal parts is inserted; a plurality of filter materials each of which is made of a conductive magnetic material and fitted on one of said cylindrical insulation parts to prevent each of said filter materials and said corresponding electric wire connection terminal part from contacting each other; and a connector fit-in part accommodating connectors connected to terminals of twist pair electric wires constructing the main line of the communication circuit and connectors connected to terminals of twist pair electric wires constructing branch lines of the communication circuit is provided, and the main line and the branch lines are branch connected via the bus bars accommodated in the connector housing of the branch connector.