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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2000
John Matthew Hess, Sparks, MD (US);
Derek Imschweiler, Dallastown, PA (US);
Stewart Connector Systems, Inc., Glen Rock, PA (US);
Abstract
The new modular jack is mounted to a PC board to overlie an LED on this board. The jack includes a light pipe having a light-entry zone in its bottom surface, a first light reflection zone in its rear surface, a light indicator zone in its front surface and a longitudinal axis in the rear-to-front direction. The light pipe further includes in its top surface a second light reflection zone situated forward of the first light reflection zone, the first and second light reflection zones positioned to receive light from the LED and to reflect same forward to the light indicator zone which is visible at the front of the jack.