Patent ID: 7708565

Claim:
An electro-optical communication device comprising: an electronic subassembly; an optical subassembly; a body of a rigid dielectric material mounted on one of said electronic subassembly and said optical subassembly, said body having electrically conductive pathways provided thereon and including a shaped portion providing a socket-like formation; and at least one electrical contact element for coupling with the other of said electronic subassembly and said optical subassembly, said at least one electrical contact element being pluggable into said socket-like formation of said body of a rigid dielectric material; said at least one electrical contact element including elastic means adapted to elastically co-operate with said socket-like formation of said body of a rigid dielectric material to retain said at least one electrical contact element plugged in said socket-like formation to provide electrical contact with said electrically conductive pathways in said body of a rigid dielectric material, while permitting vibrational displacement of said at least one electrical contact element within said socket-like formation; wherein the socket-like formation comprises upper and lower elements defining the socket-like formation, the upper and lower elements protruding from a casing wall of the optical subassembly and extending from an electrical feedthrough disposed on the casing wall.