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US 2015/0177464 A1Published application
Optical connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsKenichi IKEYA, Tomohiro HIKOSAKA, Keigo TSUBO
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Abstract
A protector is fixed to a housing in a state where a ferrule on which the protector is mounted is accommodated in a ferrule accommodation space of the housing, and thus a release of a locking state by a locking window and a fixing hook is regulated.
Claims2
An optical connector comprising:
- a ferrule that is fixed to a tip end of an optical fiber;
- a protector that is mounted on the ferrule and includes a bend-shaped wiring path for accommodating the optical fiber drawn from the ferrule;
- a housing that has a tip end side which serves as a connecting portion to a mating connector and that includes a ferrule accommodation space on a base end side thereof, which accommodates the ferrule and a portion of the protector;
- a holder that is mounted on the housing, positions the ferrule in the ferrule accommodation space, and regulates a movement of the ferrule in the ferrule accommodation space;
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- a locking unit that is provided in the housing and the holder in order to mount the holder on the housing, wherein
- the protector is fixed to the housing in a state where the holder is mounted on the holder by the locking unit and the ferrule on which the protector is mounted and the portion of the protector are accommodated in the ferrule accommodation space, thereby regulating a release of a locking state by the locking unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.