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US 2009/0214165 A1Published application
Optical Fiber Connector With Lens
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorsAkihiro Shimotsu, Teruki Nagase, Tsuneyasu Asada
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Abstract
An optical connector having a compression ring that is fitted onto a front end portion of a ferrule so as to compressively deform the ferrule and thus reduce the diameter of a through hole formed in the ferrule to thereby press and fixedly hold an optical fiber within the through hole from the outside. The compression ring can fix an optical fiber with high accuracy in terms of the position of the center axis of the optical fiber and can easily be manufactured through a simple manufacturing process.
Claims8
An optical connector comprising:
- a ferrule having a larger-diameter through hole for receiving an optical fiber core wire, and a smaller-diameter through hole for receiving an optical fiber projecting forward from the optical fiber core wire;
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- a compression ring fitted onto a smaller diameter portion of the ferrule, the smaller diameter portion extending over a predetermined range from a front end of the ferrule, wherein
- the smaller-diameter through hole contracts as a result of the smaller diameter portion being press-fitted into the compression ring and fixes the optical fiber received within the smaller-diameter through hole.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.