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US 6,645,000 B2Granted
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,
- a plurality of grooves provided in one of said side walls in a vertical direction;
- and
- a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED) fitted into said grooves and accommodated in said one of said side walls, wherein each of said grooves includes a front section and an L-shaped rear section extending from said front section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.