OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER AND OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER INSERTION/EJECTION MECHANISM

• US 20180329161A1
• Filed: 05/11/2018
• Published: 11/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations Incorporated (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations Incorporated (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Yuko, Sone, Hidemi, Hino, Masato
• Granted Patent: US 10,338,330 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4246 Bidirectionally operating package structures
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4261 Packages with mounting structures to be pluggable or detachable, e.g. having latches or rails
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/428 containing printed circuit boards [PCB]
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6335 comprising a handle
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/40 Transceivers

Abstract

The optical transceiver includes a case that has a second engagement portion engaging with a first engagement portion provided in the cage to prevent the optical transceiver from being ejected from the cage, a slider that moves relative to the case in the first direction with respect to the case, and a pusher that is oscillatably supported by the case via an oscillation shaft extending in a second direction and disengages the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion from each other by pushing the first engagement portion in a third direction while being interlocked with a movement of the slider. The oscillation shaft is positioned in an ejecting direction with respect to an interlocking part of the slider and the pusher.

Claims

1. An optical transceiver which is inserted and ejected with respect to a cage in a first direction, the optical transceiver comprising:

a case that has a second engagement portion engaging with a first engagement portion provided in the cage to prevent the optical transceiver from being ejected from the cage;

a slider that is attached to the case and relatively moves relative to the case in the first direction with respect to the case; and

a pusher that is oscillatably supported by the case via an oscillation shaft extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction and disengages the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion from each other by pushing the first engagement portion in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction while being interlocked with a movement of the slider,

wherein the oscillation shaft is positioned in an ejecting direction with respect to an interlocking part of the slider and the pusher.

2. The optical transceiver according to claim 1, further comprising:

a pull-tab that is fixed to the slider.

3. The optical transceiver according to claim 1,

wherein a mechanism causing the pusher to oscillate while being interlocked with a movement of the slider has an inclined surface which is provided in one of the slider and the pusher and is inclined with respect to the first direction, and a contact portion which is provided in the other of the slider and the pusher and comes into contact with the inclined surface.

4. The optical transceiver according to claim 3,

wherein the pusher has a projected shape which is projected toward the slider and includes the contact portion, and

wherein the slider has a recessed shape which includes the inclined surface and follows the projected shape.

5. The optical transceiver according to claim 1,

wherein the oscillation shaft and the interlocking part are positioned in a substantial center portion of the pusher in the second direction.

6. The optical transceiver according to claim 1,

wherein a distance between a position in at which the pusher pushes the first engagement portion, and the oscillation shaft is longer than a distance between the interlocking part and the oscillation shaft.

7. The optical transceiver according to claim 1, further comprising:

an elastic member that is fixed to the case and biases the slider in an inserting direction.

8. The optical transceiver according to claim 1,

wherein the second engagement portion has a first protrusion protruding in the third direction from the case, and the first protrusion engages with an opening portion of the first engagement portion.

9. The optical transceiver according to claim 8,

wherein the pusher has a second protrusion, and the second protrusion disengages the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion by pushing an inner edge of the opening portion.

10. The optical transceiver according to claim 9,

wherein the first protrusion has a groove extending in the third direction on an engagement surface with respect to the opening portion, and

wherein the second protrusion of the pusher moves inside the groove in the third direction.

11. An optical transceiver insertion/ejection mechanism comprising:

a cage that extends in a first direction and has an opening at one end; and

an optical transceiver that is inserted and ejected with respect to the cage through the opening,

wherein the cage has

a cage main body which has a space for accommodating the optical transceiver, and

a first engagement portion which extends in the first direction, of which one end on the opening side is fixed to the cage main body, of which the other end is a free end, and in which the other end is elastically displaceable in a third direction intersecting the first direction,

wherein the optical transceiver has

a case which has a second engagement portion engaging with the first engagement portion to prevent the optical transceiver from being ejected from the cage,

a slider which is attached to the case and relatively moves relative to the case in the first direction with respect to the case, and

a pusher which is oscillatably supported by the case via an oscillation shaft extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction and the third direction and disengages the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion from each other by pushing the first engagement portion in the third direction while being interlocked with a movement of the slider, and

wherein the oscillation shaft is positioned in an ejecting direction with respect to an interlocking part of the slider and the pusher.