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Article: Taiwanese Inventor Develops Mobile Telephone Versatile Connector
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 6, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 6 -- Nai-Sheng Cheng of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has developed a connector for easily connecting a peripheral to a mobile telephone that allows the peripheral to be oriented in at least two directions.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector comprises a phone-side connector attached to a mobile telephone and a peripheral-side connector attached to the peripheral. The phone-side connector comprises a plurality of contacts which are duplicated adjacent to the contacts but in a reverse order."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The peripheral-side connector also comprises a plurality of mating contacts which are ...