# US 2018/0323541 A1 · Connector with plug and socket

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- Number: US 2018/0323541 A1
- Document ID: US20180323541A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/991,218
- Filed: 2018-05-29
- Published: 2018-11-08
- Earliest claimed: 2016-03-04
- Assignees: Witco of Jupiter Dentsu Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Witco of Jupiter Dentsu Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Toshiyuki SEIDO
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180323541A1

## CPC

- H01R 13/62922: {Pair of camming plates}
- H01R 13/5219: {Sealing means between coupling parts, e.g. interfacial seal}
- H01R 13/631: for engagement only
- H01R 13/64: Means for preventing incorrect coupling
- H01R 24/86: Parallel contacts arranged about a common axis
- G02B 6/3817: {containing optical and electrical conductors (cables including electrical and optical conductors H01B11/22; G02B6/3816 takes precedence)}
- H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
- G02B: OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS

## Abstract

There is provided a connector in which a plug is put to a socket in any rotational direction around an axis and is guided to a normal position smoothly thereby providing proper connection with a simple structure. On opposite surfaces of the plug and the socket, there are provided a tilted cam surface and a cam follower with which the plug and the socket are slidably contacted to each other, rotated and positioned in a rotational direction around the axis when the plug is fitted onto the socket axially. At the center of one of the opposite surfaces of the plug and the socket, a pin-receiving hole is formed, and a center pin at the center of the other fits into the pin-receiving hole before the tilted cam surface comes in contact with the cam follower.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A connector having a socket and a plug mutually connected axially,
wherein the socket comprises:
a cylindrical portion provided in a part of a body of the socket and having a hole;
a center pin provided in a center of the body of the socket and protruding axially into the hole,
a cam follower provided on the cylindrical portion;
a pointed projection provided on the cam follower in parallel with the center pin, there is only one pointed projection in the connector as a whole; and
a plurality of optical connector pins provided in the body of the socket surround the center pin and axially extending into the hole,
wherein the plug comprises:
a body of the plug which is rotationally supported in a gripper tube;
a circular receiving portion formed in the body of the plug, in which the cylindrical portion fits rotationally; and
an insertion member provided inside the annular receiving portion,
wherein the insertion member comprises:
a tilted cam surface on the outer surface of insertion member;
a pin-receiving hole provided at a center of the plug for receiving the center pin; and
a plurality of optical contactors provided in the plug on the radial outside of the pin-receiving hole, for receiving the plurality of optical connector pins respectively,
wherein the tilted cam surface comprises:
a tip end, inclined cam surfaces and an entry groove, there is only one tip end and only one entry groove in the plug as a whole,
wherein the inclined cam surfaces are inclined with respect to the central axis of the body of the plug, and constituted by a pair of inclined surfaces continuous from the only one tip end to the only one entry groove via both outer surface sides of the insertion member,
wherein, when the circumferential relative position of the body of the plug with respect to the body of the socket is in a normal positional relationship, the entry groove is configured to allow the pointed projection to enter into the entry groove, and
wherein, at the normal position of the plug with respect to the socket, the pointed projection of the cam follower is inserted into the entry groove, and each of the optical connector pins is connected to the optical contactor, respectively.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The connector according to claim 1, wherein the distal end portion of the center pin extends in the axial direction more than the distal end portion of the respective optical connector pins.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The connector according to claim 1, wherein the connector is an optical connector for connecting optical cables to which a plurality of optical fibers are bundled up.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The connector according to claim 1, wherein the connector is an optical connector for connecting optical cables.