Electro-optical cable, plug and socket

• US 20030235379A1
• Filed: 06/19/2002
• Published: 12/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hsi-Chung Lin
• Original Assignee: Hsi-Chung Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Hsi-Chung
• Application Number:
  US10/173,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20030235379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 385/101
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3817 containing optical and electrical conductors cables including electrical and optical conductors H01B11/22; G02B6/3816 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 11/22 Cables including at least one electrical conductor together with optical fibres

Abstract

An electro-optical cable, plug and socket comprising an electro-optical cable, an electro-optical plug and an electro-optical socket, the electro-optical cable wraps a plastic fiber optics and two copper wires together; the electro-optical plug in a shell body with a fiber optics plug and a line power plug; the fiber optics plug connects to the plastic fiber optics, the line power plug connects to the copper wires; the electro-optical socket is a base with a fiber optics socket and a line power socket; the electro-optical socket is installed on an electro-optical peripheral circuit board. The mechanism can reduce the numbers of different cables, plugs and sockets that reduces the tedious wiring and troublesome.

Claims

1. An electro-optical cable, plug and socket comprising:

an electro-optical cable wrapping a plastic fiber optics and two copper wires together in parallel;

an electro-optical plug in a shell body with a fiber optics plug and line power plug, said fiber optics plug connecting to said plastic fiber optics, said line power plug connecting to said copper wires;

an electro-optical socket installed on a base with said fiber optics socket and said line power socket, said electro-optical socket installed on an electro-optical circuit board.

2. The electro-optical cable, plug and socket recited in claim 1, wherein said fiber optics plug and said line power plug connect to said plastic fiber optics and said copper wire on both ends of said electro-optical cable respectively.

3. The electro-optical cable, plug and socket recited in claim 1, wherein said electro-optical cable containing multiple said plastic fiber optics and said copper wire in parallel to form a multiple electro-optical cable, everyone of said plastic fiber optics and said copper wire connects to one said fiber optics plug and one said line power plug to make said multiple electro-optical cable have multiple numbers of said fiber optics plugs and said line power plugs.

4. The electro-optical cable, plug and socket recited in claim 3, wherein at both ends of said multiple electro-optical cable being formed into a single body, said electro-optical socket of said circuit board has the same numbers of said fiber optics socket and said line power socket.