Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Structure surrounding optical fiber bundle-to-bundle connection
Patent
1994-01-27
1995-01-10
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Structure surrounding optical fiber bundle-to-bundle connection
385 89, 385136, 385137, 385139, 385134, G02B 604, G02B 624
Patent
active
053815017
ABSTRACT:
A fiber optic bundle connector includes a hollow cone having a neck ring and a larger inlet ring at opposite ends of a conical body, a divider disposed in the cone that divides the interior of the cone into several compartments and a terminal block having an end fitted into the inlet ring of the cone. The terminal block has a plurality of terminal cavities that extend through the terminal block to communicate with respective ones of the several compartments. A plurality of jacketed fiber optic cables each having a ferrule attached to its jacket, are inserted through the respective terminal cavities so that their jacket stripped core ends extend into the neck ring of the cone. The neck ring of the cone is deformed by a permanently deformed cinch ring to produce a tightly packed bundle of jacket stripped core ends at a connector end of the fiber optic bundle connector. The cables are terminated identically and the ferrules are then positioned in the respective terminal cavities so that each terminal cavity has substantially the same path length to the neck ring irrespective of its location in the terminal block.
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Cardinal James M.
Gladd Joseph H.
Jennings Kurt L.
Tackett Timothy N.
General Motors Corporation
Healy Brian
Sanghavi Hemang
Schuetz William A.
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