Conversion device

• US 10,038,289 B2
• Filed: 01/13/2017
• Issued: 07/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Netsu, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhang, Jue
• Application Number:
  US15/405,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20170222546A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/065 with built-in electric apparatus

Abstract

A conversion device is configured to include a first connection port that is a connection port of a USB Type C; a second connection port that is a connection port of a USB other than the USB Type C; a third connection port that is a connection port of a power supplying wire; a communication wire that is connected to a communication line between the first connection port and the second connection port; and a power wire that is connected to a power line between the first connection port and the third connection port.

Claims

1. A conversion device comprising:

a first connection port that is a connection port of a USB Type C;

a second connection port that is a connection port of a USB other than the USB Type C;

a third connection port that is a connection port of a power supplying wire;

a communication wire that is connected to a communication line between the first connection port and the second connection port; and

a power supply circuit that receives power from a host through the first connection port and transmits power to a device through the third connection port,

the power supply circuit transmitting profile data of power to the host trough a wire that is connected to the first connection port, and receive power from the host according to the profile data after transmitting the profile data.

2. The conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein the power supply circuit includes a voltage boosting/dropping circuit that transforms power that is supplied from the host which is connected to the first connection port to a voltage which is stored corresponding to the profile data.

3. The conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein the power supply circuit includes a connection detecting circuit that detects whether or not a connector is connected to the third connection port, and starts supplying of power to the third connection port in a case where the connection detecting circuit detects that the connector is connected to the third connection port.

4. The conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein the communication wire includes a redriver circuit which shapes a waveform of a communication signal that is transmitted through the communication line separately from the power.

5. The conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein the redriver circuit shapes a waveform of a communication signal defined by SuperSpeed standard.

6. The conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein the power supply circuit includes a storage medium that stores the profile data corresponding the device in advance, and transmits to the host the profile data that is retrieved from the storage medium in response to a connection of the device to the third connection port.