Patent ID: 8858095

Claim:
An optical-electrical connector comprising: a housing including a pair of side walls each having a pair of securing tabs and a securing recess between the pair of securing tabs; a circuit board received in the housing and having a transducer for bidirectional optical-electrical signal conversion; a lens member mounted on the circuit board; a ferrule receiving a plurality of optical channels and having a rear resisting face, one of the lens member and the ferrule having a guide pin, and another one of the lens member and the ferrule having a guide hole, said ferrule being situated behind the lens member within the housing and aligned with the lens member along a front-to-back direction via an engagement between the guide pin and the guide hole; a supporting portion secured to the housing and having a base wall, a distance between the rear resisting face of the ferrule and the base wall maintained invariable, the supporting portion having a pair of sidewardly extending wings respectively secured in the pair of securing recesses; a cover attached to an upper portion of the housing; and a resilient member maintained at a compressed state between the base wall of the supporting portion and the resisting face of the ferrule to provide a forward force to the ferrule for affixing the ferrule to the lens member.