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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
Peter Alan Burgers, Cambridge, GB;
Peter Alan Burgers, Cambridge, GB;
DISPLAYLINK (UK) LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A connection system includes a flippable cable connector () for connecting wires in a cable () to a complementary host connector located at a host device (), the cable connector having a set of cable terminals and a set of duplicate cable terminals corresponding to the set of cable terminals, and configured to be located symmetrically to the set of cable terminals, so that the connector has 180° rotational symmetry. A particular cable terminal () is connected to a particular wire () in the cable but the corresponding duplicate cable terminal () is not connected to it. The cable connector is connectable to the host connector such that either the set of cable terminals or the set of duplicate cable terminals is connected to host terminals of the host connector. The system includes means () for determining an orientation of the cable connector relative to the host connector.