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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1997
Norihiro Takahashi, Suzaka, JP;
Fumio Kurotori, Suzaka, JP;
Hideo Miyazawa, Yokohama, JP;
Osamu Daikuhara, Suzaka, JP;
Kazuyuki Futaki, Suzaka, JP;
Hiroyuki Suzuki, Nagano, JP;
Takahiro Yoshiike, Suzaka, JP;
Kazuhiko Ikeda, Nagano, JP;
Fujitsu Takamisawa Component Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A connector is moveable between a coupled state and an uncoupled state with respect to a counter connector. Plural contact members of the connector individually contact respective, plural contacts of the counter connector when coupled together. A contact module of the connector has a pair of contacts individually contacting and short circuiting a corresponding pair of respective contacts of the counter connector, in a selected one of the coupled and uncoupled states thereof. The contact module may include a pair of output terminals corresponding to the pair of contacts and a switch, actuated between first and second states in accordance with the coupled and uncoupled states of the connector, a selected one of the coupled and uncoupled states producing short circuiting of the pair of output terminals.