Patent ID: 7568950

Claim:
A modular jack, comprising a single housing defining a single forward plug-receiving receptacle opening onto a front surface of said housing and four rearward chambers, said four chambers arranged to include an upper pair of laterally adjacent chambers, a lower pair of laterally adjacent chambers, a left-side pair of vertically adjacent chambers and a right-side pair of vertically adjacent chambers, said four chambers situated in said housing rearwardly of said plug-receiving receptacle and communicating therewith; four contact blocks, each contact blocks including a base member and a pair of contacts carried by said base member, each of such pair of contacts including a contact portion and a terminal end; said base member of each contact blocks situated in a respective one of said chambers, said contact portion of said pair of contacts carried thereby extending into said plug-receiving receptacle and structured and arranged to be engaged by contacts of a modular plug when the plug is inserted into the plug-receiving receptacle; a first horizontal slot formed in said housing extending between said upper and lower pairs of laterally adjacent chambers; a second vertical slot formed in said housing extending between said left-side and right-side pair of vertically adjacent chambers; a first shield member situated in said first slot extending between said upper and lower pairs of laterally adjacent chambers and terminating prior to said plug-receiving receptacle; and a second shield member situated in said second slot extending between said left-side and right-side pair of vertically adjacent chambers and terminating prior to said plug-receiving receptacle.