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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Houston, TX (US);
Kevin B. Leigh, Houston, TX (US);
John Norton, Houston, TX (US);
Michael R. Krause, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A housing-attachable (HA) optical connector is removably attached to a housing that is initially designed for an electrical interface with a base electrical connector on a system board. An optical fiber terminates at one end to a chip optical connector and terminates at another end to the HA optical connector. The HA optical connector is positioned with respect to the housing such that when a portion of the printed circuit board of a removable module extending outside the housing comes into contact with a base electrical connector on a system board, the HA optical connector blind mates with a base-attachable (BA) optical connector on the system board. In this manner, electrical connectivity and optical connectivity are provided between the removable module and the system board.