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US 9,960,555 B2Granted
Universal serial connector
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorJames M. Okuley
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a connector body having a first side and a second side, and having a first edge and a second edge and a plurality of electrical connectors along the first edge and the second edge, wherein the connectors on the first edge conform to a first interface format and the connectors on the second edge conform to a second interface format.
Claims10
An apparatus comprising:
- a cable connected to a connector body having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side of the connector body having a first edge and a second edge adjacent to the first edge, the first edge being different than the second edge:
- and
- a plurality of electrical connectors, each of the plurality of electrical connectors having contact pads on the connector body, the plurality of electrical connectors including at least a first set of electrical connectors on the first side located along the first edge and a second set of connectors on the first side located along the second edge, wherein the first set of connectors located along the first edge conform to a first interface format and the second set of connectors located along the second edge conform to a second interface format, wherein the first and second sets of electrical connectors are selectively disabled such that only one of the first and second sets of electrical connectors operate at any one time;
- wherein the first interface format comprises a first Universal Serial Bus (USB)-compliant format and the second interface format comprises a second USB-compliant format;
- and
- the apparatus further comprising a grip portion cover a portion of the connector body and the cable.
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An electrical connector cable comprising:
- a first connector body having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side and second side of the connector body each having a first edge and a second edge adjacent to the first edge, the first edge being different than the second edge:
- a plurality of electrical conductors within a cable;
- and
- a plurality of electrical connectors, each of the plurality of electrical connectors having contact pads on the connector body, the plurality of electrical connectors including at least a first set of electrical connectors located along the first edge of the first side and a second set of electrical connectors located along the second edge of the first side, wherein the plurality of electrical connectors is coupled with a first end of the plurality of electrical conductors, and wherein the first set of connectors located along the first edge of the first side conform to a first interface format and the second set of connectors located along the second edge of the first side conform to a second interface format, wherein the first and second sets of electrical connectors are selectively disabled such that only one of the first and second sets of electrical connectors operate at any one time;
- wherein the first interface format comprises a first Universal Serial Bus (USB)-compliant format and the second interface format comprises a second USB-compliant format;
- the apparatus further comprising a grip portion cover a portion of the connector body and the cable.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.