Printed circuit board assembly
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsKevin B Leigh, Paul Kessler Rosenberg, George D Megason
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Abstract
An optoelectronic assembly for a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly is described herein. The optoelectronic assembly may include a component carrier for mounting an active component, and a connector assembly for achieving a coupling between the component carrier and PCB-side optical infrastructure on a printed circuit board (PCB). The connector assembly can include a plurality of optical fibers connected to the component carrier, a first optical connector connected to the optical fibers for coupling with the PCB-side optical infrastructure on the PCB, and a housing member for housing the optical fibers and the first optical connector.
Claims20
An optoelectronic assembly for a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, the optoelectronic assembly comprising:
- an active component;
- a component carrier separate from a PCB of the PCB assembly, the active component mounted on and electrically connected to the component carrier;
- and
- a connector assembly for achieving a coupling between the component carrier and a PCB-side optical connector on the PCB that is separate from the component carrier, the connector assembly comprising,
- a plurality of optical fibers connected to the component carrier;
- a first optical connector connected to the plurality of optical fibers, the first optical connector having a mating surface that faces downwardly from a bottom side of the optoelectronic assembly, the mating surface of the first optical connector to mate with an upwardly facing mating surface of the PCB-side optical connector mounted on and in physical contact with the PCB;
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- a housing member housing the plurality of optical fibers and the first optical connector.
A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly comprising:
- a printed circuit board (PCB) having a PCB-side optical infrastructure comprising a PCB-side optical connector mounted on and in contact with a surface of the PCB;
- an optoelectronic assembly comprising:
- a component carrier for mounting an active component, the component carrier separate and spaced apart from the PCB;
- and
- a connector assembly comprising,
- a plurality of optical fibers connected to the component carrier;
- a first optical connector connected to the plurality of optical fibers and optically mated to the PCB-side optical connector on the PCB;
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- a housing member that houses the plurality of optical fibers and the first optical connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.