USB PCB socket

No3ntry · 15 Oct 2010 at 18:29

Wondering if any of your guys might know where I could get these from.

I ordered some PCB USB sockets off ebay and when they came i took apart my laptop only to find that the ones in the laptop are kind of sunk into the motherboard, the motherboard has a cutout that the usb port "sits in" the usb ports soldered to the mainboard have 4 legs also whereas the ones I have purchased only have 2.

Does anyone know what I am talking about and where i might find the correct type of USB port.
No pics of what I need as I cannot actually find anything online that looks like them.

Laptop is a fujitsu siemens li 2727 if it makes any difference whatsoever.

Thanks
James

Tealc · 15 Oct 2010 at 18:55

So the USB socket is sitting inside some sort of slot and is inline (as it were) with the mainboard? I don't recall ever seeing something like that and the difficulty in finding something it knowing what this sort of panel mounting is called.

Edit: Something like this?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USB(pcb).jpg

No3ntry · 15 Oct 2010 at 19:11

right I took a picture of them.
Hope this sheds some light on what they are.

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4381/dsc00967mu.jpg

PhillyDee · 15 Oct 2010 at 19:16

You want Surface Mount sockets.

No3ntry · 16 Oct 2010 at 12:06

cheers
any idea where I might find these?

The only surface mount one the bay seem to be mini b type, and I need full sized a type.

PhillyDee · 16 Oct 2010 at 13:32

Sent you an email, I may have found them, but I cannot open up the datasheet!

No3ntry · 17 Oct 2010 at 12:15

i got that e-mail thanks bud.

They dont look the same from the diagram.
The bit that has the 4 pins connected has a set where it sits on the motherboard, and the front bit sits "inside" the cutout on the motherboard.

Cheers
James

PhillyDee · 17 Oct 2010 at 12:51

Ah, good luck! They can be difficult to find, that site may have what you are after though.