Optical waveguides – With disengagable mechanical connector – Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
Reexamination Certificate
2004-06-28
2008-12-16
Healy, Brian (Department: 2883)
Optical waveguides
With disengagable mechanical connector
Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector
C385S060000, C385S078000, C385S081000, C385S082000, C385S083000, C385S084000, C385S085000, C385S086000, C385S087000, C385S088000, C385S093000, C385S094000, C385S095000, C385S097000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07465106
ABSTRACT:
An optical receptacle includes: a fiber stub having a ferrule and an optical fiber in a through-hole of the ferrule; a holder to which an rear end of the fiber stub is fixed; and a sleeve for holding a plug ferrule in front of the fiber stub; wherein a grip ring is provided on an outer side face in which the fiber stub and the sleeve are overlapped to each other, whereby attaining the shortened optical receptacle, and improving connection loss due to tilting of the plug ferrule, and obtaining good repeatability of the connection loss.
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Japanese office action and its English translation for corresponding Japanese application No. 2003-332307 provides additional comments to the relevance of JP10-332998.
Ito Hiroki
Matsumoto Toshiyuki
Tanaka Tsuyoshi
Healy Brian
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Kyocera Corporation
Lam Hung
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