G02B 6/3871
Ferrule rotatable with respect to plug body
Official title: {Ferrule rotatable with respect to plug body, e.g. for setting rotational position (adjusting fibre within the ferrule, G02B6/3843); Fixation of ferrules after rotation}
G02B6/3871 (Ferrule rotatable with respect to plug body) appears on 252 US grants and 308 published applications in this corpus.
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- Optical fiber ferrule connector having enhanced provisions for tuning418US 5,212,752 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1993
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