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Electrical connector

The plug or male connectors shown, equally visible when unplugged looking into the connector. Pin numbering for the plugs is from left to right, bottom row to pinnacle row. Pin one is on the lower left, and the highest pin number is on the upper correct

PS/2 socket pin numbering: annotation that the male plug numbering is a mirror prototype, with numbers going from left to right

The mini-DIN connectors are a family of multi-pin electrical connectors used in a variety of applications. Mini-DIN is like to the larger, older DIN connector. Both are standards of the Deutsches Institut für Normung, the German standards torso.

Blueprint [edit]

Color-coded PS/2 connection ports (majestic for keyboards and green for mice) on the rear of a personal computer

An S-video connector: because this is a female connector, Pin 1 is at lower right

Mini-DIN connectors are 9.v millimetres ( 3⁄8 in) in diameter and come up in seven patterns, with the number of pins from 3 to nine. Each pattern is keyed in such a way that a plug with ane pattern cannot be mated with any socket of another pattern. They are each drastically different from the other, with no simultaneously and directly overlapping similarities in (1) pin arrangement, (2) square key size and position, (3) round shielding metal skirt notches and metallic additions: in this they differ from the nonstandard mini-DIN connectors which may have directly overlapping characteristics to each other or to the standard mini-DIN connectors.^{[ original research? ]}

Notable usage [edit]

Some notable examples of standard mini-DIN connectors include:

Mini-DIN-3 connectors were used in early implementations of Apple tree LocalTalk.
Mini-DIN-four connectors are used for South-video, and were used for Apple Desktop Autobus.
Mini-DIN-6 connectors were used for IBM PC compatible PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports and for Acorn Archimedes keyboards (prior to the A7000 were proprietary, A7000 and later were standardised PS/2).
Mini-DIN-8 connectors were used for Sun Microsystems^[i] keyboard and mouse ports, besides as for serial printer, modem, and Apple tree^[2] LocalTalk connections. Information technology was also used every bit the game pad connector for the PC Engine video game system and its variants (except the TurboGrafx-16 USA variant, which used a total sized DIN-8). Furthermore, some devices by Keithley Instruments feature it, too.
Mini-DIN-9 connectors were used for Acorn Archimedes Quadrature Mice and Microsoft InPort Bus Mice (non interchangeable). It is as well used as the Audio/Video output port of Sega Genesis/Mega Drive gaming consoles on Model two variants, too as their 32X addon.
Mini-DIN-vii and Mini-DIN-nine connectors have been used for a diverseness of audio and video applications. As well, iRobot Roomba Vacuum cleaning robots apply a Mini-DIN-7 to expose an interface for custom sensing and control.
Mini-DIN-6 and Mini-DIN-8 connectors are frequently used in ham radio applications to interface with computers for data package communications and radio programming.

Not-standard connectors [edit]

The plug or male connector are shown, as visible when unplugged; female sockets are mirror images

Several non-standard sockets are designed to mate with standard mini-DIN plugs. These connectors provide extra conductors, and are used to salve space past combining functions in one connector that would otherwise crave 2 standard connectors.

Other non-standard connectors mate but with their matching connectors, and are mini-DIN connectors merely in the sense of sharing the 9.5 mm plug trunk. These mini-DIN style plugs are non canonical past the Deutsches Institut für Normung, the German standards body, and many applications could exist considered proprietary. The Sega Saturn uses a ten-pin non-standard connector.

Other non-standard connectors [edit]

A non-standard, 7-pin socket (female person) variant compatible with an S-Video Mini-DIN-four plug (male)

JVC Mini-DIN 8
Allen-Bradley Micrologix PLC Mini-DIN eight
Beyerdynamic microphone connector
Some 3-pivot and 4-pin DC power connectors look similar plenty to Mini-DIN connectors to be erroneously referred to as "Mini-DIN" connectors sometimes.

References [edit]

^ Stokely, Celeste (2005). "Serial Port & Cablevision Pinouts". sunhelp.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2013-10-08 .
^ "Mini DIN-8: Serial pinouts for Hayes modems". support.apple.com. Feb 19, 2012. Retrieved 2013-10-08 .