公开(公告)号：US11652322B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-16

申请号：US16608126

申请日：2018-04-24

Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Inventor： Scott Martin Keith ,  Amid Ihsan Hashim ,  Bryan Scott Moffitt ,  Shawn Phillip Tobey

IPC: H01R13/502 ,  H01R13/6463 ,  H01R13/64 ,  H01R31/06

CPC classification number: H01R13/6463 ,  H01R13/502 ,  H01R13/64 ,  H01R31/06

Abstract: A family of connectors to accommodate a single twisted pair of conductors is disclosed herein. The family of connectors includes a free connector, a fixed connector, and an adapter; the free and/or fixed connectors can be modified to accommodate the adapter configuration and/or modified to accommodate various patch cord configurations. In certain embodiments, the one or more of the family of connectors adopts an LC fiber optic style connector configuration and an LC fiber optic footprint configuration. In certain examples, one or more of the family of connectors adopts an LC fiber optic style connector configuration but in a footprint that is larger or smaller than the footprint of the LC fiber optic footprint. Other configurations may also be adopted.

公开(公告)号：US11296463B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-05

申请号：US16964730

申请日：2019-01-24

Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Inventor： Scott Martin Keith ,  Amid Ihsan Hashim

IPC: H01R13/642 ,  H01R24/20 ,  H01R24/28 ,  H01R24/60 ,  H01R13/6463

Abstract: A family of connectors includes a plug, receptacle and adapter with the plug incorporating beam contacts, and the receptacle and adapter incorporating interfacing arched beam contacts. A z-configuration of the port(s) within the receptacle and adapter is configured to interface with the plug, which also presents a z-configuration. The parallel, upper and lower portions of the z-configuration of the plug incorporate the beam contacts. The first beam contact of the plug is rotated 180 degrees from the second beam contact of the plug; the arched beam contacts are similarly rotated. The plug, receptacle and adapter of a small form factor that is similar or identical to the formal factor of an optical fiber LC connector. The plug and receptacle can be configured for circuit board, cable or patch cord mounting. The plug and receptacle can be utilized in a multi-plug/multi-receptacle configuration.