Patent ID: 8708579

Claim:
An optoelectrical connector, comprising: a plug configured to include an insertion fitting part; and a receptacle configured to include a housing space into which the insertion fitting part of the plug is inserted; wherein the plug includes an optical connection part on a front end of the insertion fitting part and an electric connection part positioned more rearward than the optical connection part, the receptacle includes: an optical connection part on a deep side of the housing space and an electric connection part positioned more frontward than the optical connection part, a shutter that is provided more rearward than the electric connection part and on an immediate front of the optical connection part, an insulation body that is composed of a base body and a tongue piece that is protruded and extended from the base body, a shell that surrounds the insulation body so as to form the housing space on a part in which the tongue piece is positioned, terminals that are disposed on one plate surface of the tongue piece so as to constitute the electric connection part, an optical member that is attached to ends of optical fibers and is inserted and fixed in a housing hole that is formed on the one plate surface side on the base body so as to constitute the optical connection part, a slider that makes the shutter open against energizing force and a spring that applies the energizing force to the shutter, wherein: the slider includes a pair of legs and is slidably disposed on a groove that is formed on the base body, the shutter is disposed on a front surface of the optical member, the shutter has a plate shape, and shafts that are respectively formed mutually outward on both ends of the plate shape are engaged respectively with shaft reception concave parts that are respectively formed on the pair of legs, the shutter is configured to open when the optical connection part of the plug and the optical connection part of the receptacle are optically connected with each other, and after the electric connection part of the plug and the electric connection part of the receptacle are electrically connected with each other by the insertion of the insertion fitting part to the housing space, the slider is pushed by the front end of the insertion fitting part so as to slide back, the shutter slides back and opens while rotating about the shafts along with the slide back of the slider, and the energizing force is applied to a part positioned on a rear end of the shutter in the open state.