The present invention relates to a path plug for transmitting high-speed electric signals and particularly to a patch plug that conforms to EIA/TIA Category 6 standards.
In response to the high-speed network applications beyond Ethernet, the working groups of Telecommunication Industry Associations (TIA) of U.S.A. published Category 6 standards (ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1) in June of 2000. The category 6 standards, besides expanding from 100 MHz of Category 5 standards to 200 MHz, also require the performance to be enhanced at least 25% over the Category 5 standards. Some performance test frequency for Category 6 even reaches 250 MHz. The biggest difference between the Category 6 and Category 5 standards is the performance improvement on crosstalk and return loss. For the new generation of full duplex high-speed network applications, good return loss performance is very important. The crosstalk performance is an important factor to control frequency bandwidth. Although 100 Mbps is still the main stream of the present network configurations, the Category 6 standards will be more desirable to meet future requirements.
The standards set forth above not merely target high-speed communication wires. In order to maintain high-speed transmission performance in the high-speed communication network systems, the peripheral equipment related to the high-speed communication wires, especially telecommunication connection elements (such as RJ-45 type plug and jack) also require a corresponding design. There are many types of connectors. The patch plug is one of them. Most connector products now on the market merely focus on the improvement of the jack portion. Very few focus on the improvement of the plug portion. Hence it often happens that the high-speed cables and jacks conform to the Category 6 standards, but the plug portions have too much interference. As a result, the total system still can reach only the Category 5 standards or even lower.
To remedy this problem, U.S. Pat. No. 6,062,895 discloses a patch plug with contact blades, that has pairs of spaced electrical conductors close to each other so that the interval is shrunk and is moved away from the neighboring electrical conductors to reduce crosstalk and interference of telecommunication signals. However, such a compensation scheme still cannot reach the EIA/TIA Category 6 standards.
The object of the invention is to provide a patch plug to conform to ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1/Category 6 transmission standards (hereinafter called EIA/TIA Category 6 standards).
The patch plug according to the invention includes a shell and a plurality of electrical conductors. The shell has a housing space, which has one end to receive a communication wire and another end containing a plurality of insertion slots to accommodate the electrical conductors. Each of the electrical conductors has a contact portion at one end exposed outside the housing space and a piercing end at another end located in the housing space. The piercing end can contact the communication wire. The electric conductors are paired and defined in different electricity and laid in a spaced manner. The insertion slots can make the interval of every pair of electrical conductors smaller than the distance between the neighboring pairs of electrical conductors. And the piercing ends of at least one pair of the electrical conductors are crossed to abut onto the piercing ends of neighboring electrical conductors that have the same electricity, so that capacitance compensation is generated to conform to EIA/TIA Category 6 standards, thereby improving transmission quality and performance.
The foregoing, as well as additional objects, features and advantages of the invention will be more readily apparent from the following detailed description, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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The electrical conductors 20 are formed in pairs, as shown in the drawings, include a first electrical conductor 21, a second electrical conductor 22, a third electrical conductor 23, a fourth electrical conductor 24, a fifth electrical conductor 25, a sixth electrical conductor 26, a seventh electrical conductor 27 and an eighth electrical conductor 28. They are similarly constructed. Take the first electrical conductor 21 as an example. It has one end exposed outside the shell 10 to form a contact portion 211 and another end formed a piercing end 212. The electrical conductors are paired. Namely, the first electrical conductor 21 and the second electrical conductor 22, the third electrical conductor 23 and the fourth electrical conductor 24, the fifth electrical conductor 25 and the sixth electrical conductor 26, the seventh electrical conductor 27 and the eighth electrical conductor 28 form respectively four pairs of electrical conductors. Through the insertion slots 111, the interval of each pair of electrical conductors is smaller than the interval of the neighboring pairs of electrical conductors. For instance, the interval of the third electrical conductor 23 and the fourth electrical conductor 24 is smaller than the interval of the third electrical conductor 23 and the second electrical conductor 22. The same principle is applied to the rest of the electrical conductors.
Meanwhile, the two electrical conductors of each pair have different electricity. For instance, if the first electrical conductor 21 is T (tip), the second electrical conductor 22 is R (ring). Similarly, if the third electrical conductor 23 is T (tip), and the fourth electrical conductor 24 is R (ring); the fifth electrical conductor 25 is T (tip), and the sixth electrical conductor 26 is R (ring); the seventh electrical conductor 27 is T (tip), and the eighth electrical conductor 28 is R (ring). Hence the T and R are arranged in an alternate manner. Furthermore, at least one pair has the piercing ends 212 crossed to be abutting neighboring electrical conductors of the same electricity. Refer to
The approach is to make the rest electrical conductors in parallel spatially, to increase the capacitance compensation value. Refer to
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While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been set forth for the purpose of disclosure, modifications of the disclosed embodiments of the invention as well as other embodiments thereof may occur to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to cover all embodiments, which do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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