Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Structure surrounding optical fiber-to-fiber connection
Patent
1992-07-29
1994-01-04
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Structure surrounding optical fiber-to-fiber connection
385 55, 385 76, 385 86, G02B 632
Patent
active
052767523
ABSTRACT:
A fiber optic connector system includes male and female mating connectors for interconnecting a pair of optical fibers each having a central core and an outer jacket. Each connector includes a housing adapted for receiving an end of one of the optical fibers and for mating with the other connector. Each connector housing is a plastic structure overmolded about the outer jacket of its respective optical fiber in an area at the end of the fiber. The outer jacket of the fiber has circumferential grooves into which the overmolded material of the connector housing extends for axially retaining the overmolded housing on the fiber. A band-like locking clip surrounds telescoped portions of the male and female connectors. The locking clip has a radially inwardly projecting locking tab extending into aligned apertures in the telescoped mating portions when the connectors are mated.
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Gugelmeyer Robert J.
Krehbiel Fred L.
Healy Brian
Molex Incorporated
Tirva A. A.
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