Combination light source and connector

Details Combination light source and connector Combination light source and connector

1997-01-03

1998-12-22

Ngo, Hung N.

Optical waveguides

With disengagable mechanical connector

Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector

G02B 636

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058526978

ABSTRACT:
A combination light source and connector includes a housing having a front, a light-tube module and a connector. The light-tube module includes a body with a cavity, a reflector which is disposed within the cavity, a lamp which is disposed within the cavity, a focusing lens which is disposed within the cavity and optically aligned with the reflector and the lamp. The connector includes a socket which is coupled to the front of the housing and has a threaded bore, a plug which has a bore which receives the optical fiber and is adapted to be coupled to the socket, and a heat sink which has a disc-shaped portion with a bore which receives the optical fiber and a threaded stem portion with a bore which receives the optical fiber. The disc-shaped portion of the heat sink is slidably coupled within the cavity of the body of the light-tube module and disposed adjacent to the socket. The threaded stem portion of the heat-sink is threadedly coupled in the threaded bore of the socket.

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patent: 4579419 (1986-04-01), Scrivo
patent: 4767178 (1988-08-01), Sasaki et al.
patent: 5073047 (1991-12-01), Suzuki et al.
patent: 5283802 (1994-02-01), Hsiung

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