Electrical connectors – Coupling part including flexing insulation – Having plural – laterally spaced – prongs or prong sockets
Patent
1995-09-11
1997-10-21
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
Coupling part including flexing insulation
Having plural, laterally spaced, prongs or prong sockets
385 72, H01R 1340
Patent
active
056790252
ABSTRACT:
A front connector insert includes a removable front portion and a rear portion which is fixed in the connector. The rear portion retains the terminus of an optical fiber or electrical cable, with the removable front portion being removable to expose the terminus for cleaning or testing. The removable front portion includes a latching clip having a detent at one end which engages an indentation in the fixed portion of the insert when the removable portion of the insert is aligned with the fixed portion such that the clips align with grooves in the fixed insert. Removal of the removable portion of the insert is accomplished using a simple removal tool having an L-shaped extension which is inserted into a corresponding L-shaped recess in the front insert, the removal tool being rotated following insertion so that the removable insert can easily be removed from the connector to expose the optical fiber termini and contacts and permit testing or cleaning. In the case of an optical fiber connector, alignment sleeves and/or tubes may be captured within the removable front portion of the insert so as to prevent loss of the alignment tubes or sleeves upon removal of the removable insert from the connector.
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Barnes, Jr. Richard Lewis
Gallusser David Otis
Mikolaicyk John Henry
Oleksik Gregory John
Amphenol Corporation
Goins Christopher
Paumen Gary F.
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