Latching beam mechanism having plug stops for optical connector

Details Latching beam mechanism having plug stops for optical connector Latching beam mechanism having plug stops for optical connector

1991-06-24

1992-08-18

Healy, Brian

Optical waveguides

With disengagable mechanical connector

Optical fiber to a nonfiber optical device connector

385 78, 385 89, 385 92, 385139, G02B 626

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051406632

ABSTRACT:
A connector for joining light transmitting fiber cables through a cover (14) to a transmitter and/or receiver device (3) comprises a plug half connector (6) comprising a plug (8) and a transceiver adapter (10). The plug (8) has profiled passageway (43) for receiving an optical fiber. The transceiver adapter (10) is an integral two-part structure comprising a transceiver shroud (11) adapted to axially receive the plug (8) and extending axially (38) for aligning the plug (8) forward relative to the transmitter and/or receiver device (3). The adapter (10) further comprises a latching beam mechanism (12) having forward extending latching beams (13), the latching beam mechanism (12) characterized by a wedge shaped plug stop (64) along each of the extending latching beams (13).

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Optimate Catalog 88-812, AMP Incorporated, Mar. 1989, pp. 5-18.

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