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(11) EP 0 614 249 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
21.12.1994 Bulletin 1994/51

(43) Date of publication A2:
07.09.1994 Bulletin 1994/36

(21) Application number: 94201482.0

(22) Date of filing: 11.06.1987
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5: H01R 23/02, H01R 31/06
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE DE FR GB IT NL SE

(30) Priority: 13.06.1986 US 874181

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
87904196.0 / 0274487

(71) Applicant: THE WHITAKER CORPORATION
Wilmington, Delaware 19808 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Lane, David
    Greensboro, North Carolina 27410 (US)
  • Marsh, Edward Kenneth
    Kernersville, North Carolina 27284 (US)
  • Watts, Elvert Steven
    Walkertown, North Carolina 27051 (US)

(74) Representative: Warren, Keith Stanley et al
BARON & WARREN 18 South End Kensington
London W8 5BU
London W8 5BU (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
     
    Remarks:
    This application was filed on 25 - 05 - 1994 as a divisional application to the application mentioned under INID code 60.
     


    (54) Local area network interface


    (57) A shielded data connector (200) performing as an interface to a local area network is engageable with a complementary connector for interconnecting electronic components to the network. It includes an insulating terminal support housing (202) having a front mating face and a rear face and mounting a plurality of terminals having contact portions engageable with contacts of the complementary connector. The terminal support housing has shield means (230). The data connector is in the form of a plug-in module for the network and includes an edge card (280) which has data traces electrically connected to terminals of the terminal support housing and is pluggable into and removable from an edge card connector (150B) mounted in a wall box (2) and terminating a multiconductor shielded communications cable (120) of the network.









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