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US 10,094,994 B2Granted
Electrical/optical connector
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsKevin B. Leigh, George D. Megason, Paul K. Rosenberg
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Abstract
An electrical/optical connector system can include a first circuit board with a floating optical connector and a first electrical contact and a second circuit board with a second optical connector to blind mate with the floating optical connector and a second electrical contact to blind mate with the first electrical contact.
Claims20
An electrical/optical connector system, comprising:
- a first circuit board comprising:
- a first housing having a first interior;
- a floating optical connector within the first interior of the first housing;
- a biasing member within the first interior and coupled to the floating optical connector;
- and
- a first electrical contact;
- and
- a second circuit board comprising:
- a second housing nestable within the first interior, the second housing having a second interior;
- a second optical connector recessed within the second interior to blind mate with the floating optical connector;
- and
- a second electrical contact to blind mate with the first electrical contact while the second optical connector is blind mating with the floating optical connector.
9 more elements
An electrical/optical connector system, comprising:
- a first circuit board with a first optical connector housing and a first electrical contact, wherein the first optical connector housing houses a floating optical connector and the first electrical contact is flexible;
- and
- a second circuit board with a second optical connector housing and a second electrical contact to blind mate with the first electrical contact, wherein the second optical connector housing houses a second optical connector to blind mate with the floating optical connector, wherein one of the first optical connector housing and the second optical connector housing is nestable within the other of the first optical connector housing and the second optical connector housing.
An electrical/optical connector system, comprising:
- a first circuit board with a first optical connector housing and a first electrical contact, wherein the first optical connector housing houses a floating optical connector and the first electrical contact is flexible;
- and
- a second circuit board with a second optical connector housing that houses a second optical connector to blind mate with the floating optical connector and a second electrical contact to blind mate with the first electrical contact, wherein the second circuit board includes an electrical/optical engine coupled to the second optical connector and a first electrical contact housing of the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact housing of the second electrical contact facilitates the blind mate between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact and wherein the second optical connector housing is nestable within the first optical connector housing during blind mating of the floating optical connector and the second optical connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.