Patent Publication Number: US-2006019532-A1

Title: Universal USB cable

Description:
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     Parent Case Text  
      Priority  
      This application incorporates by reference and claim priority, as a continuation in part, from provisional application Ser. No. 60/590,983, filed on Jul. 26, 2004, entitled Universal USB Cable.  
    
    
      The present invention relates to simplifying and combining the current USB cable systems. The current USB cable systems are uniquely built to connect to a computer and to a device that is using that one connection type that is built in to the end of the USB cable. No other device can be connected to the cable that uses a different type USB connector.  
      This Universal USB Cable system will connect up to four different USB connector type devices, on the same cable assembly, but one device at a time. If the user connects two devices on the cable assembly at the same time the two device will cancel each other out and will mix the USB signal making the assembly unusable.  
      The Universal USB Cable is most useful in case of needing to use devices with different connectors, or in case of having to carry many USB cables. Now the user only needs to carry one cable that can supply many devices.  
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING  
       FIG. 1  shows an open view of how the wires are connected to each USB connectors. The shielded wires are connected as: red wire to red wire, white wire to white wire, green wire to green wire, and black wire to black wire. The wires are colored so no mixing of connections would occur. The way the first connector is wired that is how all the following connectors must be wired also.  
       FIG. 2 A  is showing a USB type A Male connector that will connect to the USB port in a computer.  FIG. 2 B , The next connector in the cable assembly is a USB type A Female, that is connected to the next connector witch is  FIG. 2 C  is a USB type A Male. The next connector in the chain of the cable assembly is  FIG. 2 D  is a USB type B Male witch connects to the last connector that is  FIG. 2 E  that represents a USB type Mini A Male ending the cable.