Abstract: An electrical jack having at least one socket for receiving an edge connector, a printed circuit board structure having an end portion extending into the socket for reception in the connector upon insertion of the connector into the socket, and switching means normally conditioned to cooperate with a printed circuit on the printed circuit board for electrically connecting a first set of jack terminals to a second set of jack terminals, the switching means extending into the jack's socket for actuation by insertion of the connector into the socket to electrically disconnect the two sets of terminals from each other.

Abstract: An electrical jack and method of making the electrical jack wherein a housing is formed with at least one socket for receiving a circuit board edge connector, wherein a circuit card is fixed to the housing and has an end portion extending into the socket for reception in the connector upon insertion of the connector into the socket, and wherein a set of contact spring members are insertable through an aperture in the housing in the process of making the electrical jack. The contact spring members are removably trapped in place against cooperating surfaces on the housing and the circuit card at positions where they cooperate with conductors on the circuit card to normally interconnect two sets of terminals and where they are deflectable by insertion of the connector into the socket to electrically disconnect the two sets of terminals from each other.

Abstract: An electrical jack having at least one socket for receiving an edge connector, a printed circuit board structure having an end portion extending into the socket for reception in the connector upon insertion of the connector into the socket, and switching means normally conditioned to cooperate with a printed circuit on the printed circuit board for electrically connecting a first set of jack terminals to a second set of jack terminals, the switching means extending into the jack's socket for actuation by insertion of the connector into the socket to electrically disconnect the two sets of terminals from each other.

Abstract: An electrical patch cord plug and jack assembly in which the plug is insertable into a selected one of a number of plug-receiving sockets in the jack and has a multiplicity of contact elements arranged in at least one longitudinally extending row for making and breaking various circuit connections in the jack.

Abstract: An electrical patch cord plug and jack assembly in which the plug is insertable into a selected one of a number of plug-receiving sockets in the jack and has a multiplicity of contact elements arranged in at least one longitudinally extending row for making and breaking various circuit connections in the jack.