Dual-mode socket connectors
US6293706A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 23, 2000 |
| Grant date | Sep 25, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 23, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/4292
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A socket connector has a single socket including fiber optic terminals 10 and wire terminals 12 and is adapted to receive alternatively in respectively inverted positions either a first plug connector for cooperation with the fiber optic terminals or a second plug connector for cooperation with the wire terminals, in each case without engagement with the terminals with which the plug should not cooperate. The connector includes respective latching slots 7 and 11 in opposite walls 5 and 3 for the respective plug connectors.
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