The receptacle side of the connector has contact on the one side. Using 8 pins Lightning is an 8-pin connector that carries a digital signal and charging power. Introduced on September 12, 2012, to replace its predecessor, the 30-pin dock connector, the Lightning connector is used to connect Apple mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and iPods to host computers, external monitors, cameras, USB battery chargers, and other peripherals.” Apple is the sole proprietor of the trademark and copyrights for the designs and specifications of the Lightning connector. Wikipedia Lightning connector page says: “ Lightning is a proprietary computer bus and power connector created and designed by Apple Inc. Let’s search information on Apple connector. Could this connector in the cable be a combined Apple Lightning and MicroUSB? Size is such that it could plug to Apple charging port and microUSB port. Those contacts resemble on some ways the Apple lightning connector used in iPad and iPhone. This connector has extra contacts on the one side of what the micro-USB connector. One day when I was looking at one USB charging cable I had (received from seminar or fair show).Ĭloseup pictures reveal that this cable has somewhat interesting looking micro-USB connector in it.

On those special non-standard USB connectors, I have earlier covered Reversible USB connectors that make old USB connectors (like USB A and micro-USB) so that they can be plugged in both ways (like USB type C connector). There are standard USB connectors and non-standard special custom connectors in different USB cables.

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