Patent ID: 7517254

Claim:
A modular jack assembly for being mounted to a mother board and engaging with a mating plug, comprising: an insulative housing mounted on said mother board and defining a cavity for receiving the mating plug; a power over ethernet assembly having a substrate and a plurality of electrical elements mounted on the substrate; and a terminal module mounted in the insulative housing and comprising: a base element comprising a front portion, a top portion, a bottom portion, a rear portion, a side portion, a receiving room defined therein, and a plurality of connecting terminals mounted thereon and electrically connected with the power over ethernet assembly; a pair of daughter boards attached to opposite sides of the base element and having a conductive region electrically connected with the power over ethernet assembly; a contacting module assembled to the front portion of the base element and having two groups of mating terminals mounted thereon, each group of mating terminals having contacting portions contacting with the mating plug and tail portions electrically connected to the conductive region of corresponding daughter board; and a connecting element mounted below the bottom portion of the base element and having two rows of contacts assembled thereto, each row of the contacts having soldering portions electrically connecting to the mother board and bending portions electrically connected to the conductive region of corresponding daughter board; wherein said terminal module is electrically connected to the mother board via the electrical connection among the mating terminals, the conductive region of the daughter board and the contacts, and wherein the terminal module is electrically connected to the power over ethernet assembly via the electrical connection among the mating terminals, the conductive region of the daughter board and the connecting terminals.