Electrical connector including a plurality of mating conductors. Each of the mating conductors extends between an engagement portion and an interior portion. The engagement portions of the mating conductors are configured to engage contacts of the mating connector. The engagement portions are located proximate to one another at a first nodal region. The interior portions are located proximate to one another at a second nodal region. The electrical connector also includes a first open-ended conductor electrically connected to the engagement portion of a first mating conductor of the plurality of mating conductors and extending from the first nodal region. The electrical connector also includes a second open-ended conductor electrically connected to the interior portion of a second mating conductor of the plurality of mating conductors and extending from the second nodal region. The first open-ended conductor is capacitively coupled to the second open-ended conductor.

A modular electrical connector having the characteristics of simple manufacturing process, reduced manufacturing cost and high production yield is disclosed to include two signal terminal sets arranged one above the other in a staggered manner to provide a compensated structure, and an electrically insulative terminal block including a mounting block and a mating connection block and molded on the signal terminal sets by injection molding. The connection segments of the signal terminals of the two signal terminal sets are bent to move the mounting block and the mating connection block toward each other to further force a positioning portion of the mounting block into engagement with a positioning groove of the mating connection block.

A modular electrical connector having the characteristics of simple manufacturing process, reduced manufacturing cost and high production yield is disclosed to include two signal terminal sets arranged one above the other in a staggered manner to provide a compensated structure, and an electrically insulative terminal block including a mounting block and a mating connection block and molded on the signal terminal sets by injection molding. The connection segments of the signal terminals of the two signal terminal sets are bent to move the mounting block and the mating connection block toward each other to further force a positioning portion of the mounting block into engagement with a positioning groove of the mating connection block.

Various implementations of lead frame style communications connectors are disclosed. In some implementations, a lead frame style communications connector may include a plurality of conductors each including a plug contact region and an opposing cable conductor termination region. Each of the plurality of conductors may be arranged in one of a first subset of conductors and a second subset of conductors. The lead frame style communications connector a mandrel separating the first subset of conductors from the second subset of conductors.

A connector having favorable crosstalk characteristics and common conversion characteristics and high noise immunity is provided. The connector includes a first connector having at least one pair of first terminals disposed in one housing and a second connector that includes at least one pair of second terminals disposed in another housing, and configured to be connected to the one pair of first terminals. The connector includes at least one first terminal surrounding conductors fixed inside the one housing, individually surrounding the pairs of first terminals, and are insulated from other members, and at least one second terminal surrounding conductors are fixed inside the other housing, individually surrounding the pairs of second terminals, and are insulated from other members. When the first terminals are respectively connected to the second terminals, the first terminal surrounding conductors are respectively connected to the corresponding second terminal surrounding conductors as well.

A patch panel structure includes a first jack row including a plurality of first network ports each having RJ-45 jack ends aligned in a first direction and arranged in a first row; a second jack row including a plurality of second network ports each having RJ-45 jack ends aligned in a second direction and arranged in a second row, wherein the first jack row and the second jack row are parallel, whereas the first direction and the second direction are opposite. Minimal alien crosstalk occurs between the network ports of the patch panel structure, thereby meeting strict transmission standards.

A patch panel structure includes a first jack row including a plurality of first network ports each having RJ-45 jack ends aligned in a first direction and arranged in a first row; a second jack row including a plurality of second network ports each having RJ-45 jack ends aligned in a second direction and arranged in a second row, wherein the first jack row and the second jack row are parallel, whereas the first direction and the second direction are opposite. Minimal alien crosstalk occurs between the network ports of the patch panel structure, thereby meeting strict transmission standards.

A printed circuit board includes vias of first and second differential pairs, and vias of third and fourth differential pairs. The vias of the first and second differential pairs are arranged in a first via pattern based on a first crosstalk signature of a first connector to be coupled to the vias of the first and second differential pairs. The vias of the third and fourth differential pairs are arranged in a second via pattern based on a second crosstalk signature of a second connector to be coupled to the vias of the third and fourth differential pairs.

A connector includes a wafer having first, second, third, and fourth communication channels. The first and second communication channels form a first differential pair, and the third and fourth communication channels form a second differential pair. The wafer includes a plug and a receptacle. The plug includes a first portion of the first, second, third, and fourth communication channels. The receptacle includes a second portion of the first, second, third, and fourth communication channels. A first crisscross is located at a first predetermined location of the first and second communication channels of the first differential pair. The first crisscross changes a first polarity of a first signal to be transmitted on the first differential pair. A second polarity of a second signal to be transmitted on the second differential pair remains the same throughout an entire length of the second differential pair.

A plug-in connector that can be manufactured using MID technology, which nevertheless ensures good crosstalk compensation and thus a high data transmission rate has two assembled contact carrier parts with contacts are disposed between these contact carrier parts. A separate, electrically conductive compensation coating may be provided in each contact carrier part, each having a connection surface for producing an electrically conductive connection to an associated contact. Each of the electrically conductive compensation coatings has at least one coupling surface for a targeted capacitive coupling with one or more further contacts. Between each coupling surface and the associated contact, an insulating film or part of an insulating film is provided, which acts as a dielectric and a spacer. By selection of the contacts to be coupled and the capacitance of the coupling, good compensation of undesired crosstalk can thus be achieved in a simple manner.