Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
Patent
1991-03-25
1991-12-17
Sikes, William L.
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
G02B 636, G02B 726
Patent
active
050730452
ABSTRACT:
A connector for joining light transmitting fiber cables through a cover (14) to a transmitter and/or receiver device (3) comprises a plug connector half (6) comprising a plug (8) and a transceiver adapter (10), and a clip connector half (5) attached to and integral with the transmitter/receiver device (3) and having apertures (19) therein beveled (20) to receive latching beams (13) of the transceiver adapter (10). The clip connector half (5) further comprises a clip retention slot (21) coextensive to each aperture (19) through a cut-out (22) common to both the retention slot (21) and the aperture (19). The clip connector half (5) further comprises clips (23) each with a dimple (24) adapted to clip within a respective retention slot (21) with the dimple (24) biased through the cut-out (22) in the slot (21) and into engagement with a respective latching beam (13) upon mating of the plug connector half (6) to the clip connector half (5). The clip connector half (5) further has a window (26) on the same side of the clip connector half body (18) as the slot (21) and which is a continuation of the slot (21). The clip (23) comprises a flat, linear body with dimple (24) and wing (25) both emanating from the same plane of the body. The clip (23) slides into a respective slot (21) with dimple (24) engaged with the port (35) of a respective latching beam (13) through the slot cut-out (22) and with wing (25) projecting outward from the window (26) of the side of the clip connector half (18).
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Optimate catalog 88-812, AMP Incorporated, 3/89, pp. 5-18.
AMP Incorporated
Sikes William L.
Wise Robert E.
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