Hybrid connector

US6095698A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Martin Strab · Gräfenberg, DE
• Marcus Schulte · Viernheim, DE
• Richard Flieger · Stammham, DE
• Michael Roth · Sasbach, DE
• Ernst Liebich · Geltendorf, DE
• Werner Bittner · Nürnberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 10, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 1, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 10, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R13/62905
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A hybrid connector with electric plug-in connections and fiber-optic demountable connections for an electronic built-in unit. The hybrid connector has a female connector and an angular male connector strip having long side walls. The female connector has a cover cap with module chambers for holding electric receptacle modules and fiber-optic modules. Electrooptical transducers having connecting leads with ends defining solder terminals are assigned to the fiber-optic connectors of the fiber-optic modules. The electrooptical transducers are disposed in a base of the angular male connector strip. The electrooptical transducers are aligned in a row parallel to the long side walls on a side on which solder terminals of the male connector strip are located. In this manner, the length of the connecting leads including the solder terminals is as small as possible.