Optical connector

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2006-05-25

2009-12-08

Font, Frank G (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

With disengagable mechanical connector

Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector

C385S076000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07628546

ABSTRACT:
The object of the present invention is to suppress a decrease in the optical function of a sleeve by ensuring that a liquid chemical substance is not apt to remain on a peripheral surface of the sleeve even when the liquid chemical substance enters a connector. The present invention relates to an optical connector which is connected to an optical plug holding an optical fiber to a terminal end of which a ferrule is attached. The optical connector of the present invention has a guide pipe into which a ferrule is inserted and on an inner circumferential surface of which a supporting portion (a convexity) is formed, a light-emitting device, a light-receiving device, and a sleeve which is positioned by the supporting portion and optically connects the light-emitting device, the light-receiving device and the optical fiber. According to the present invention, there is a space between the guide pipe and the sleeve and, therefore, the phenomenon that a chemical substance adheres to a wide area and remains does not occur.

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CN—First Office Action, Jul. 4, 2008, Hosiden Corporation, English translation.
CN—Second Office Action, Dec. 19, 2008, Hosiden Corporation.

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