Illuminant USB cable
OwnerMing-Chuan Mainventor
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Abstract
An illuminant USB cable is constructed to include two USB connectors, each USB connector having a light permeable housing and a circuit board with a LED that emits light when the illuminant USB cable connected to a computer, a cable electrically connected between the circuit boards of the USB connectors, the cable having a light permeable tubular outer shell, and a fiber optic axially mounted within the tubular outer shell of the cable and connected between the light emitting elements of the USB connectors to receive light from the LEDs of the USB connectors and to refract light through the outer shell of the cable to the outside, the fiber optic having recessed portions for producing light spots when refracting light from the LED.
Claims8
An illuminant USB cable for connection between a computer and a peripheral apparatus, the illuminant USB cable comprising:
- a cable, said cable comprising an electrically insulative tubular outer shell that admits light, signal lines, power lines, and grounding wires twisted with said signal lines and said power lines inside said tubular outer shell;
- at least one USB connector each disposed at one end of said tubular outer shell, each said USB connector comprising a circuit board electrically connected to said cable, the circuit board of each said USB connector having a light emitting element installed therein;
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- at least one fiber optic embedded in said cable and adapted to guide light from the light emitting element of said circuit board to the outside of said cable;
- wherein said at least one fiber optic is respectively connected to a light emitting side of the light emitting element of the circuit board of each said USB connector, each having a plurality of recessed portions adapted to refract light from the light emitting element of each said USB connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.