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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:
Dec. 01, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2007
Applicants:
Perry L. Hayden, Sr., Salinas, CA (US);
Peter Lum, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William F. Edwards, Jr., Livermore, CA (US);
Flintstone Yu, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Perry L. Hayden, Sr., Salinas, CA (US);
Peter Lum, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William F. Edwards, Jr., Livermore, CA (US);
Flintstone Yu, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 24/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A connector comprising an insulating body defining a slot that is adapted to receive a pluggable module. A plurality of conductive pins extend into the slot and at least one extension, coupled to the insulating body, protects the plurality of pins from being shorted by an incorrectly inserted pluggable module.