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US 2002/0177354 A1Published application
Modular jack
AssigneeHirose Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsSatoshi Sato, Akio Suzuki
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Abstract
The modular jack (21) comprises a housing (22) having side walls (30), a plurality of cavities (27, 28) provided at a front side of the housing (22), into which mating modular plugs are inserted, at least one groove (33, 34) provided in one of the side walls (30), and at least one LED (24, 25) fitted into the groove (33, 34) and accommodated in the side walls (30). Accordingly, the fixing work for LEDs (24, 25) is simplified and the manufacturing cost is minimized.
Claims6
A modular jack, comprising
- a housing having side walls;
- a plurality of cavities provided at a front side of said housing, into which mating modular plugs are inserted;
- at least one groove provided in one of said side walls;
- and
- at least one light emitting diode (LED) fitted into said groove and accommodated in said one of said side walls.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.