Patent ID: 7220062

Claim:
A transceiver mountable to a bulkhead, the transceiver comprising: a housing having a seating surface, an aperture, and a thread form; a first ferrule; a second ferrule; a keying cap positioned in the aperture of the housing, and wherein the first ferrule and the second ferrule are positioned adjacent to the keying cap so as to form an interface which is compatible to accepting a fiber optic connector where the fiber optic connector conforms to a standard designated as MIL-PRF-83526/16; a transmitting optical subassembly in optical communication with the first ferrule; a receiving optical subassembly in optical communication with the second ferrule; an electrical connector, and wherein the electrical connector projects through the housing; a substrate attached to the transmitting optical subassembly, the receiving optical subassembly, and to the electrical connector, the substrate having electrical signal conditioning components mounted thereon, the electrical signal conditioning components electrically connect the electrical connector to the transmitting optical subassembly and to the receiving optical subassembly; and a panel nut having a thread form, and a seating surface, and wherein the thread form of the panel nut is complementary to the thread form of the housing so that the panel nut is removeably mountable on the housing, and wherein, in a mounted position of the transceiver, the thread form of the panel nut engages the thread form of the housing so that the seating surface of the panel nut contacts a first surface of the bulkhead and the seating surface of the housing contacts a second surface of the bulkhead so that the transceiver is securely mounted to the bulkhead.