Patent ID: 7606497

Claim:
An optical transceiver to be inserted into a cage mounted on a host board and to be engaged with a connector provided at an innermost end of the cage on the host board, comprising: an optical element; a circuit board electrically connected to the optical element at one end, the circuit board having a plug to be engaged with the connector at another end opposite to the one end; and a housing containing the optical element and the circuit board, the housing having a metal cover with a bottom surface and a pair of side portions standing upright from the bottom surface, the pair of side portions each being bent toward its respective opposite side portion to form a pair of folds with distal ends as a guide at a side of the other end; upon engaging the plug with the connector, the guide contacting an outer side face of the connector to guide the plug to the connector, wherein the distal ends of the pair of folds has a distance smaller than the total width of the connector.