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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2015
Nec Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Morizono, Tokyo, JP;
Ichiro Hirai, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Kawamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichiro Iwata, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Abe, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A hub apparatus comprises a first port that receives predetermined cascade-supplied differential signals; a plurality of second ports that receive and output the predetermined differential signals; a third port that cascade-outputs the predetermined differential signals; a plurality of differential signal line pairs that daisy-chain connect the first port, the plurality of second ports, and the third port in this order from upstream to downstream; and a terminator provided between two differential signal lines that constitute a differential signal line pair connecting the last-stage second port out of the plurality of second ports to the third port.