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.

A connector includes: a conductive inner shielded cable holding portion having a first bent portion having a shape conforming to the peripheral shape of a first inner shielded cable, and a second bent portion having a shape conforming to the peripheral shape of a second inner shielded cable; and a conductive clamp ring housing having hollow space for allowing the first inner shielded cable and the second inner shielded cable to pass therethrough, and an inner peripheral surface defining the hollow space and having a shape conforming to both the peripheral shape of the first bent portion and the peripheral shape of the second bent portion.

A connector includes: a conductive inner shielded cable holding portion having a first bent portion having a shape conforming to the peripheral shape of a first inner shielded cable, and a second bent portion having a shape conforming to the peripheral shape of a second inner shielded cable; and a conductive clamp ring housing having hollow space for allowing the first inner shielded cable and the second inner shielded cable to pass therethrough, and an inner peripheral surface defining the hollow space and having a shape conforming to both the peripheral shape of the first bent portion and the peripheral shape of the second bent portion.

A plug-in connector for a two- or multi-wire cable includes a male and female contact. The male and female contacts are configured to be coupled to first and second wires, respectively, and are elongated in a plug-in direction. A carrier element is configured to position and receive the male and female contacts in first and second receiving spaces, respectively, each at a predefined angle with respect to the plug-in direction, and to electrically insulate the male and female contacts from one another. A shielding element includes first and second channels for receiving the first and second wires, respectively. The channels each penetrate the shielding element from its end located counter to the plug-in direction to its end located in the plug-in direction. The shielding element comprises an electrically conducting material, and is arranged at an end of the carrier element located counter to the plug-in direction.

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 various patch cord and mounting configurations. In certain embodiments, the one or more of the family of connectors adopts an RJ 45 style connector or RJ 45 style jack/receptacle configuration in a reduced footprint, e.g. one-half, one-third or one-quarter the size of a standard RJ 45 connector or jack/receptacle.

An apparatus includes a rigid housing, a first connector coupled to the housing, the first connector to receive an edge connector of an input/output (I/O) device, and a second connector coupled to the housing, the second connector to couple to an edge connector socket. Pairs of electrical connection pins of the first connector are coupled to respective pairs of electrical connection pins of the second connector via shielded differential cables inside the housing.

A modular plug is disclosed as having a housing, a wire manager, a load bar, and a rear component each configured to snap-fit together to assemble the modular plug. The wire manager has a plurality of channels axially positioned about a central axis, each channel being configured to receive a twisted pair of wires from a telecommunications cable, and each channel having a first width and a gate having a second width smaller than the first width.

A modular plug is disclosed as having a housing, a wire manager, a load bar, and a rear component each configured to snap-fit together to assemble the modular plug. The wire manager has a plurality of channels axially positioned about a central axis, each channel being configured to receive a twisted pair of wires from a telecommunications cable, and each channel having a first width and a gate having a second width smaller than the first width.

A joint connector includes high and low potential wire terminals (10H, 10L), a plurality of sub-housings (20A, . . . ) corresponding to the respective twisted pair cables and configured to hold the high and low potential wire terminals (10H, 10L), a main housing (30) configured to accommodate the sub-housings (20A, . . . ) in a stacked state, high and low potential connection conductors (40H, 40L) configured to connect the high potential wire terminals (10H) to each other and connect the low potential wire terminals (10L) to each other, and a holding member (50) including housing restraining portions (54) and to be mounted into the main housing (30) such that the housing restraining portions cross the sub-housings (20A, . . . ). The housing restraining portions (54) restrain restrained portions of the sub-housings (20A, . . . ) to impede the withdrawal of the sub-housings (20A, . . . ) in a direction opposite to a housing insertion direction.

Guide element for electrical cores in a cable with at least four guide tracks, one for each electrical core of the cable, wherein the guide tracks run in such a way that at a first end of the guide element, at least two cores exchange places relative to a second end of the guide element opposite the first end.