IP Library Granted Patent US 7,594,767
Granted Patent B2
US 7,594,767 · App. 12/341,616 · Granted Sep 29, 2009

Pluggable optical transceiver closely set within a joined cage

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,594,767
App. No.
12/341,616
Granted
Sep 29, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A configuration of the ground finger provided in the pluggable transceiver is disclosed, which makes the gap between the transceivers ideally small even when a plural transceiver is set in side-by-side arrangement within a single cage. The transceiver has side fingers in both side walls thereof, whose levels are different from each other such that, when these transceivers are set in side-by-side arrangement within the single cage, they come in contact with sides of the next transceiver so as not to interfere the contact.

Claims (15)

1. A pluggable optical transceiver set in a cage, comprising:

a metal cover with a plurality of elastic fingers coming in contact with said cage when said transceiver is set in said cage, said fingers being provided at least a left side and a right side of said transceiver,

wherein said fingers in said left side and in said right side are formed so as not to interfere with respect to each other when said transceiver and another transceiver having a same arrangement of said fingers are set in side-by-side arrangement within said cage.

2. The pluggable optical transceiver according to claim 1 ,

wherein said finger provided in said left side and said finger provided in said right side are formed in a different level to each other.

3. The pluggable optical transceiver according to claim 2 ,

wherein said right side of said transceiver provides a hollow in a position where a finger in a left side of said other transceiver comes in contact.

4. The pluggable optical transceiver according to claim 1 ,

wherein said finger in said left side has a forked end shape and said finger in said right side has a slimed end so as to pass between said forked ends.

5. The pluggable optical transceiver according to claim 4 ,

wherein said right side of said transceiver provides a hollow in a position where a finger in a left side of said other transceiver comes in contact.

6. The pluggable optical transceiver according to claim 1 ,

wherein said finger in said left side has a slimed end offset from a center thereof downwardly and said finger in said right side has a slimed end offset from a center thereof upwardly.

7. The pluggable optical transceiver according to claim 6 ,

wherein said right side of said transceiver provides a hollow in a position where a finger in a left side of said other transceiver comes in contact.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 3, 2012
From: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK, LLC
To: RED HAT, INC.
Reel/Frame 028724/0227 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2009
From: OKI, KAZUSHIGE
To: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 022212/0591 →