Patent ID: 7399126

Claim:
An optical fiber socket adapted to be mounted on a circuit board, the optical fiber socket comprising: an insulative housing defined therein a first receiving space, a second receiving space and an intermediate receiving space sandwiched between the first receiving space and the second receiving space, wherein the first receiving space and the second receiving space both have a bottom face and two openings defined in the respective bottom face of the first receiving space and the second receiving space of the insulative housing for receiving two optical fiber plugs; a first illuminating element having a conducting end accommodated in the first receiving space; a second illuminating element having a conducting end accommodated in the second receiving space; plural terminals each having a connecting end and an elongated end; and an end block accommodated in the insulative housing so as to firmly position the second illuminating element and the terminals, wherein the circuit board and the second illuminating element is electrically connected to one another and the first illuminating element is electrically connected to the circuit board by way of the terminals; and a baffle between the first receiving space and the intermediate receiving space has plural slits for extension of the conducting ends of each of the illuminating elements, each slit has a pair of guiding tracks defined in two opposed sides defining the slit to receive therein the connecting ends of the terminals, a side wall between the intermediate receiving space and the second receiving space has trenches to receive therein the elongated ends of the terminals.