Fiber optic wall plate connector system

Details Fiber optic wall plate connector system Fiber optic wall plate connector system

1990-11-09

1992-06-02

Healy, Brian

Optical waveguides

With disengagable mechanical connector

Optical fiber/optical fiber cable termination structure

385 59, 385 62, 385 69, 385 71, 385 72, 385 84, 385138, 385139, G02B 638

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051194554

ABSTRACT:
A connector system for operatively connecting the ends of two fiber optic cables together. A wall-mountable plate includes an elongated receptacle containing spaced through bores. The bores have opposed frusto-conical entry sections which are joined by a cylindrical central section. A terminal connector is mounted on the end of each cable and has spaced frusto-conical projections which end in cylindrical nose portions containing the ends of the fibers. The terminal connector projections are insertable through opposite ends of the bore into abutment of the nose portions at an interface location along a central portion of the bore. Lock tabs and shoulders on the receptacle and on one of the terminal connectors latch the connector within the bore, with the terminal being held without bias and against reverse movement out of that end of the bore. A collar is slidably mounted on the other terminal connector, with a spring captured between the connector and the collar for biasing them apart. Lock tabs and shoulders on the receptacle and on the collar latch the collar to the receptacle such that the spring biases the connector terminal projection nose portions into engagement. Each of the projection nose portions is configured to mate with the bore central portion, with the combined length of the nose portions being sufficiently greater than the length of the bore central portion to assure mutual abutment of the terminal ends by the spring.

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