Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber/optical fiber cable termination structure
Patent
1992-12-15
1994-02-08
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber/optical fiber cable termination structure
385 56, 385 60, 385 66, 385 76, 385 84, G02B 626, G02B 638
Patent
active
052855104
ABSTRACT:
A fiber optic connector resists signal interruption with a structure that has an inner body, that receives and mounts an optical fiber, and that has an outer body having an axial passage that receives the inner body. The outer body has two sections arranged in axial succession. The outer-body back section mounts a captive element for mechanical coupling with a further optical device with which the connector mates. The forward, second section of the outer body is arranged for limited axial displacement relative to the first section. The connector has structure forming two springs or like resiliently acting elements; one biases the front end of the inner body axially forward relative to the back of the outer body, and the second biases the front of the outer body forward relative to the back section of the outer body.
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Healy Brian
The Whitaker Corporation
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