Patent ID: 7182635

Claim:
A stacked microphone jack assembly comprising: a plurality of microphone jacks vertically aligned at different elevations, said microphone jacks each comprised of an electrically insulative housing and a set of conducting terminals mounted in said housing, said housing having an inside chamber, a front plughole disposed in communication with said inside chamber at a front side for receiving a microphone plug, and a plurality of vertical through holes vertically cut through top and bottom walls thereof and arranged in two rows near two opposite lateral sides, said conducting terminals each having a head extending to the inside of said accommodation chamber for a contact of the plug of a microphone and a leg respectively downwardly extending from said head out of a bottom side of said housing; and at least one connector respectively electrically connected between each two vertically spaced microphone jacks of said stacked microphone jack assembly, said at least one connector each comprising an electrically insulative base, said electrically insulative base having a plurality of terminal slots cut through top and bottom sides thereof and arranged in two rows at two opposite lateral sides, and a plurality of connection terminals respectively fastened to said terminal slots, said connection terminals each having a clamping portion respectively suspending in said terminal slots for clamping the legs of the conducting terminals of the overlying microphone jack respectively and a leg downwardly extending from one side of said clamping portion outside said base for inserting through the vertical through holes of the underlying microphone jack.