US 9,287,669 B2 · SATA express connector

Abstract

The present invention relates to a data connector, particularly a SATA Express connector having a power supplying line, the SATA Express connector including a device-side connector and a board-side connector, where the device-side connector is provided with at least one second device-side connector and a first device-side connector, which includes a power receiving pin, a PERST# pin, a CLKREQ#/DEVSLP pin and an IFDet pin, the board-side connector is provided with at least one second board-side connector and a first board-side connector, which is correspondingly provided with a power supplying pin, a PERST# pin, a CLKREQ#/DEVSLP pin and an IFDet pin; when the device-side connector is engaged with the board-side connector, the power supplying pin of the board-side connector provide a working power source through the device-side connector to an application component, and thus transmission of SATA or PCIe data can be carried out without additionally providing an external power cable.

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Dependent claims

A SATA Express connector, comprising a device-side connector, the device-side connector comprising:

a first device-side connector provided with four pins, the pins of the first device-side connector comprising a power receiving pin, a sending reset signal pin (PERST pin), a providing reference clock pin (CLKREQ pin)/a triggering device sleeping mode pin (DEVSLP pin) and a Coz SATA-Expressing interface detecting pin (IFDet pin);
and
one or more second device-side connectors, each of which is internally provided with at least seven pins;
wherein the pins of the second device-side connector comprise three GND pins and four data transmission pins.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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