Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Structure surrounding optical fiber bundle-to-bundle connection
Patent
1990-06-28
1992-01-21
Gonzalez, Frank
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Structure surrounding optical fiber bundle-to-bundle connection
385 65, G02B 640
Patent
active
050823469
ABSTRACT:
A field assemblable multifiber optical connector has a tubular housing enclosing a passage in which we inserted two plug assemblages having respective butting front end faces butting each other. Each assemblage comprises (a) a plug consisting of two plates spaced by a gap and having on opposite sides of such gap respective registering sets of laterally spaced gooves defining fiber receptacle channels running to such end faces, and respective pairs of longer groves deferring similarly running pin receptacle channels flanking such fiber channels, and (b) a resilient clip coupled to both guide plates to urge them towards each other and maintain them in alignment. Initially, each such assemblage also includes a comb at the back of the plug for aiding insertion of optical fibers into it. The housing also mounts in its passage a pair of aligning pins receivable partly in both one and the other of the plugs in their pin channels. To effect field assembly, the plug assemblages are removed from the housing, fibers from corresponding optic fiber cables are advanced through the fiber channels in the plugs to their end faces, the guide plates of each plug are then bonded together by adhesive, and the plug assemblages are then replaced in the housing with end faces abutting to produce an optical splice between the two sets of fibers, respectively, in the two plugs. The resilient clips of the assemblages are concurrently coupled both to the plugs and to the housing to maintain such end faces in yieldable mutual pressure contact.
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AT&T Bell Laboratories
Gonzalez Frank
Kip, Jr R. F.
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