JP2001217023A - Junction modular jack terminal strip for multi-media ports - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a junction modular jack terminal strip for multi-media ports which enables to allow concealed wiring for the wiring of a cable for previously wired LAN and hubs and routers. SOLUTION: A body 11 of a junction modular terminal strip 10 is made of a box with the rear side opened at which a rear cover 17 is fitted constituting a box, and is formed several integral number of times as large as the prescribed unit dimension at its outside dimensions and made a module. At the front wall of the body 11, opening portions 14... exposing coupling strips 13a to 13b composing the coupling terminals 13 which connect the plural pair wires of a cable of LAN wired inside a building and opening portions 16... exposing modular jacks 15 which connect cables for LAN apparatus such as hubs and routers are formed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a relay modular jack used for LAN wiring, in which a multimedia port is provided in one box together with a communication system device and a video system device, and forms a multimedia port together with these devices. Related to terminal block.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been no terminal block corresponding to a LANN cable pre-wired to a building in a device constituting a multimedia port.

[0003]

As described above, since there is no terminal block corresponding to the above-mentioned device built in the conventional box, that is, the terminal block corresponding to the LAN cable preliminarily wired as the internal unit, the hub and the router are not connected. The connection of the wired LAN cable was supported by the exposed wiring.

Therefore, there is a problem that the wiring is exposed in the room and becomes ugly.

[0005] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a LAN cable which can be housed in a box for a multimedia port and which is wired in advance. Another object of the present invention is to provide a relay modular jack terminal block for a multimedia port, in which wiring between a hub and a router can be made compatible with embedded wiring.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the external dimensions are set to be integral multiples of a predetermined unit dimension. One or more terminal portions for connecting a LAN cable that is preliminarily wired, comprising a formed and modularized body, and one-to-one with respect to the terminal portions.
And connected inside the body, the LAN
One or a plurality of modular jacks for connecting a modular plug of a LAN cable from a device for use are provided on the above-mentioned body.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the terminal portion comprises a terminal block group consisting of quick connection terminals for connecting four pairs of LAN cable pairs. The electric wire insertion hole of the terminal and the plug insertion port of the modular jack are exposed to the front of the body.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to an embodiment.

First, a box 1 used for a multimedia port is, for example, a box 1 as shown in FIGS.
And a device for a multimedia port housed in the box 1, such as a BS / U / V booster or a digital C
S satellite signal switch 3, configuration for accommodating equipment related to video and information such as DSU, that is, an internal unit, and an electric wire connection terminal device for connecting an external power supply line and branch-wiring to equipment requiring an AC power supply. The internal unit to be used, that is, the combination of devices is selected according to the user's equipment.

The box 1 is constructed by detachably attaching a synthetic resin cover 1a to the front opening of a synthetic resin body 1b as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, and is shown in FIG. Switch box 2 embedded in wall W in advance
The body 1b is mounted using a mounting hole or the like drilled in the lower right lower portion of the back surface of the body 1b, and a mounting table (shown in FIG. ) Is installed, and the wiring is pre-wired to the wall side from the power line communication port 3, communication / video communication port 4, 4 'which can be opened as necessary by knockout below and above the inner surface of the body 1b. Power cable, various communication cables, and coaxial cable for video are drawn into the body 1b, the power cable is connected to the wire connection terminal device, the communication cable is connected to the corresponding device, and the coaxial cable is connected to the BS. U / V booster,
Input terminals for video equipment such as digital CS satellite signal switches,
Connect to output terminal ...

The size of each device provided in the box 1 in the width direction is set to an integral multiple of a predetermined unit size, and the size in the vertical direction (vertical direction) and the height from the bottom surface to the front surface are set to be equal to each other. When they are unified and arranged, they are unified and can be arranged side by side.

The relay modular jack terminal block 10 according to one embodiment of the present invention replaces the conventional terminal block of the exposed arrangement type, and includes a synthetic resin body 11 and a back cover 17 shown in FIGS. The width dimension of the container made of is set to be one time the unit module size set in advance, that is, the unit module size.

The body 11 is a box-shaped body having an opening on the back side in FIG. 1, and a back cover 17 is fitted and attached to the opening on the back side to form a body, and both ends in the longitudinal direction of the opening on the back side (FIG. 2). In the vertical direction), the mounting pieces 11a, 1
1b is formed integrally with the mounting pieces 11a, 11b.
The dimension between both ends in the longitudinal direction including b is made to correspond to the vertical dimension unified with other equipment, and the dimension from the back surface to the front is made to correspond to the height dimension unified with other equipment.
The mounting piece 11a is provided with a mounting hole 12a formed of a round hole.
The mounting piece 11b is formed with a mounting hole 12b formed of a round hole, so that the mounting piece 11b can be screwed to a mounting plate in the box 1.

At predetermined positions above, in the middle, and below the front wall of the body 11, 10BASE-
T, 100BASE-TX, etc. Four sets of terminal blocks, each of which incorporates a pair of quick-connecting terminals corresponding to each pair of wires constituting a cable used for a LAN constructed from a 100BASE-TX, and integrally forms a disconnection button 27. Four opening windows 14 for exposing the front side of 13a to 13d from inside the body 11 are formed respectively.
In addition, a portion located below each of the portions forming the four opening windows 14 is a category electrically connected to four sets of terminal blocks 13a to 13d exposed from the opening windows 14 on the upper portion. 5 modular jacks 15 ... body 1
Opening windows 16 are formed so as to be exposed from the inside.

On both sides of the upper end of the front wall of the body 11, an inverted L-shaped protruding piece integrally projecting in the front direction from the upper end of a synthetic resin back cover 17 attached to the back opening of the body 11. Window holes 26, 26 are formed to allow the holes 18, 18 to be inserted from the inside of the body 11. The LAN is located in a vertically penetrating space surrounded by these protruding pieces 18, 18 and the front wall of the body 11.
A tension stop portion for stopping the tension by passing the cables together.

The four sets of terminal blocks 13a to 13d are LAN
These correspond to four pairs of cable pairs, respectively, and constitute one quick connection terminal portion 13. In the present embodiment, three L
Three sets of quick-connecting terminals 13 to accommodate AN cables
And three sets of modular jacks 15 for connecting the ports of the hub provided in the box 1 or the hub provided in the dial-up type router to each of the quick connection terminals 13. Terminal blocks 13a to 13d and modular jack 1 constituting each quick connection terminal portion 13
5 are mounted on a printed circuit board 19 provided in the body 11 and are electrically connected by a circuit pattern formed on the printed circuit board 18. The modular jacks 15 It is arranged on the printed circuit board 19 so as to be adjacent to the mounting portion of the terminal portion 13.

Here, each of the four quick-connecting terminal portions 13 is connected so that each of the four pairs of LAN cables previously wired corresponding to the respective terminal numbers of the eight-pole terminals of the modular jack 15 is connected. Between the lands of the printed circuit board 19 to which the terminals of the terminal blocks 13a to 13d and the terminals of the modular jack 15 are respectively fixed by soldering, are formed on the front and back surfaces of the printed circuit board 18 shown in FIGS. Circuit pattern.

Each of the paired wires connected to the terminal block 13a is a terminal, a terminal, and each of the paired wires connected to the terminal block 13b is a terminal, a terminal, and a terminal block 13c.
Correspond to the number terminal and the number terminal, respectively, and each line of the pair wire connected to the terminal block 3d corresponds to the number terminal and the number terminal.

The terminal blocks 13a-
When the printed circuit board 19 on which the 13d and the modular jacks 15 are mounted is attached to the body 11, first, the printed circuit board 19 is put into the body 11 through the opening on the back surface of the body 11 and the quick connection mounted on the surface of the printed circuit board 19 is performed. Opening windows 14 corresponding to the front faces of the terminal blocks 13a to 13d in which the wire insertion holes 28 of the terminal blocks 13a to 13d are opened and the front faces of the modular jacks 15 in which the plug insertion ports are opened are opened in the front wall of the body 11. , And 16 are exposed outside the body 11. At this time, the terminal blocks 13a to 13a
projection 20 and modular jack 1 formed on the outer peripheral surface
5 projecting into the body 11 from the opening edges of the open windows 14 and 16 on the projection 21 formed on the outer peripheral surface of the outer wall 5.
The leading ends of 6a are in contact with each other to determine the insertion positions of the terminal blocks 13a to 13d and the modular jack 15 into the opening windows 14, 16. On the other hand, ribs 22 projecting in the opening direction from the back surface of the front wall of the body 11 abut on the front surface of the printed circuit board 19, and have concave portions 19a formed on both side edges of the printed circuit board 19 in inner surfaces of both side walls of the cover 11. The positioning protrusion (not shown) formed on the printed circuit board 11
Is positioned.

In this state, when the back cover 17 is fitted to and attached to the back opening of the body 11, the printed circuit board 19 is sandwiched between the back cover 17 and the ribs 22.
Fixed inside. Here, on both sides of the back cover 17,
Locking claws 23 are integrally provided at the middle and lower positions,
When the back cover 17 is fitted into the back opening of the body 11, the locking claws 23 are engaged from the inside of the body 11 into the locking holes 24 formed corresponding to the side walls of the body 11. 17 is fixed to the body 11.

The above-mentioned protruding pieces 1 provided on both sides of the upper end of the back cover 17 by attaching the back cover 17 to the body 11 are provided.
8 and 18 are the body 11 through the window holes 26 and 26 of the body 11.
Projecting forward in front of the. G in FIG. 2A is a strip gauge.

As described above, the relay modular jack terminal block 10 of the present embodiment is completed.

By arranging the relay modular jack terminal block 10 together with other devices in the box 1 described above, a multimedia port is formed. A projection 25 for providing a gap between the body of another device and the body 11 when juxtaposed and juxtaposed with another device is integrally formed on one side surface of the body 11 like other devices. It is. The gap formed by the projection 25 enhances the ease of removing the device.

When wiring is performed using the relay modular jack terminal block 10 of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, a category 5 of an embedded category 5 previously disposed on an indoor wall or the like is used. One end is connected to modular jack 30 ...
A LAN cable 31 embedded in a wall or the like and wired in advance is introduced from the wall side into the box 1 in which the relay modular jack terminal block 10 is disposed, and the LAN cable 31
Modular jack terminal block 10 for relaying four pairs of wires
And a modular plug-in LAN having one end connected to a port of a LAN device 32 such as a hub or a dial-up type router hub arranged side by side in the box 1. The modular plugs at the other ends of the connecting cables 33 are connected to the modular jacks 15 of the relay modular jack terminal block 10. As a result, the relay connection between the LAN device 32 and the pre-wired LAN cables 31 can be performed without exposing wiring.

In this embodiment, three sets of quick connection terminals 13 and corresponding modular jacks 15 are provided. However, one set, two sets or four or more sets may be provided. In this case, the width of the body may be set to twice or more the unit module.

[0026]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a box which is built in a box for a multimedia port, and has a modularized body whose outer dimensions are formed to be an integral multiple of a predetermined unit dimension. One or a plurality of terminal portions for connecting the LAN cable that has been laid in advance, one-to-one correspondence with the terminal portions, and connection of the LAN cable from the LAN device connected inside the body. Since one or a plurality of modular jacks for connecting a modular plug are provided in the above-mentioned body, they can be provided together with other devices constituting the multimedia port in the same box in a unified manner, There is an effect that a relay connection can be made between the pre-wired LAN cable and a router or hub provided in the box without exposing the wiring.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the terminal portion comprises a terminal block group consisting of quick connection terminals for connecting four pairs of LAN cable pairs. Since the wire insertion hole of the connection terminal and the plug insertion port of the modular jack are exposed at the front of the body, the cable connection operation can be easily performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is a front view of the same. (B) is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. (C) is a transverse sectional view of the same.

FIG. 3A is a circuit pattern diagram on a front surface side of a printed circuit board used in the embodiment. (B) is a circuit pattern diagram on the back surface side of the printed circuit board used in the above.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a wiring example using the above.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the box that houses the above, as viewed from the front side.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the box that houses the above, as viewed from the back side.

FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing an attached state of a box that houses the same.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 relay modular jack terminal block 11 body 13 quick connection terminal section 13 a to 13 d terminal block 14 opening window 15 modular jack 16 opening window 17 back cover 19 printed circuit board

Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Kazuo Nakai 118 Kazuma Kadoma, Osaka Pref. Matsushita Electric Works Co., Ltd. F term (reference) CC01 DB02

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A module which is built in a box for a multimedia port and has an outer dimension formed as an integral multiple of a predetermined unit dimension and modularized.
One or a plurality of terminal portions for connecting the LAN cable that has been laid in advance, one-to-one correspondence with the terminal portions, and connection of the LAN cable from the LAN device connected inside the body. A relay modular jack terminal block for a multimedia port, wherein one or a plurality of modular jacks for connecting a modular plug are provided in the body. 2. The terminal section comprises a terminal block group comprising quick-connecting terminals for connecting four pairs of LAN cable pairs, and a wire insertion hole of the quick-connecting terminal of each terminal block and a plug-in of the modular jack. The relay modular jack terminal block for a multimedia port according to claim 1, wherein a mouth is exposed to the front of the body.