Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Tomokazu Harano

Mitsuru Iida

Shunsuke Hashimoto

Shinji Hashimoto

Kenichi Shimaya

Yoshiaki Kambe

A photoelectric transforming connector for optical fibers capable of application to a compact mobile apparatus such as a mobile phone comprises: a plug having a first light emitting portion for transmitting a light signal and/or a first light receiving portion for receiving a light signal through an optical fiber; an MID having a second light receiving portion facing the first light emitting portion and transforming the light signal from the first light emitting portion to an electric signal and/or a second light emitting portion facing the first light receiving portion and transforming an electric signal to a light signal and transmitting it to the first light receiving portion; and a shell to which the plug and the MID are attached. The shell has a bottom plate to which the plug and the MID are attached in a manner so that the first light emitting portion faces the second light receiving portion and/or the first light receiving portion faces the second light emitting portion, and a plurality of elastic pieces provided for standing up toward top face side from four side of the bottom plate and contacting the plug and the MID. Thereby, the plug can be attached to and detached from the bottom plate of the shell in a vertical direction.

Photoelectric transforming connector for optical fibers

An optical and electrical compound connector, which enables to transmit and to receive light signals and electric signals of a plurality of systems and to transmit and to receive these signals with respect to other electric wiring board, is achieved with downsizing and easing connection work thereof. The optical and electrical compound connectoris comprised of a sheet-shaped base boardand a socketinto which this base boardis inserted. The sheet-shaped base boardis a flexible base board capable of transmission and reception of the light and electric signals, in which a light guideand conductor patternsextended in an insertion directionare formed. The socketperforms the transmission and reception of the light and electric signals with the sheet-shaped base boardand transmits and receives the signals with an electric wiring boardThe socketcomprises a connector main bodyto which the sheet-shaped base boardis connected, a light-sensitive element and/or a light emitting elementwhich performs the transmission and/or reception of the light signals with the light guideand contactswhich performs the transmission and/or reception of the electric signals with the conductor patternsThe connector main bodyhas a first to third wallstoenclosing the sheet-shaped base boardfrom both sides in a thickness direction and from a front endside, and the light-sensitive element and/or the light emitting elementand the contactsare disposed on any one of these walls.

Optical and electrical compound connector

Connector for photoelectric conversion

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Tsu, Japan

Tomokazu Harano