What is the mini-din connector?
originally developed by the Deutsches Institut Fur Normung (DIN), which means the "German Institute for Standardization", the Mini-Din connector is a round plug containing different number of pins. The Mini-Din connector has reached a series of electronic devices, including computers, peripherals and video devices. MINI-DIN connectors usually have a symmetrical pin layout combined with a plastic or metal key to ensure that they can only be connected in the correct way. They are often referred to by the name of a specific connection that carry, such as the PS/2 mouse or the S-Video connector.
The mini-din connector has three functions. First, the plugs have from three to nine pins that carry data, power or ground signal. In addition, each mini-din plug has a round metal shield with a diameter of 9.5 millimeters and has certain notches or bumps to ensure that it is only properly connected. Eventually everyone has a non-vivail block that passes into a port on the mini-din jack to prevent it from being re-insertedto him. More than just ensuring the operation of the connected devices, the correct insertion also protects the pins into the mini-din connector, which are very small and fragile.
One of the most famous mini-DIN connectors is a quad variant that is used in the S-Video connection standard. This standard, which came out to support higher quality before high definition systems, such as S-VHS and digital video specifications (DV) mini-DV. Unlike a composite video that carries the entire image signal on one wire, S-Video separates information by brightness or brightness and color, also known as Chroma, for better video quality. The four -pound connector also began to be used in many power sources and in Apple® Desktop BUS (ADB ™) peripherals, which was the forerunner of the universal serial bus (USB).
When international business machines (IBM) released a number of personal system/2 (PS/2) computers in 1987, IBM VR shouldAvoid at the top of the personal computers market. Although they failed to achieve this goal, their small round mouse and keyboard connectors remained a standard of almost 20 years. The PS/2 mouse and keyboard connector uses a six-wheel mini-din plug.
In addition to these known applications, the Mini-DIN connector is present as a multimedia connector on many laptops and as a connection between scanners and their accessories, such as page feeders and transparency adapters. Professional sound and disc jockey components also have this plug and jack style. Many computer graphics cards also use mini-DIN connectors as connectors for their proprietary input and output cables