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US 2019/0056555 A1Published application
Optical connector ferrule and optical connector
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsSho Yakabe, Takuro Watanabe
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Abstract
An optical connector ferrule includes optical fiber holding hole holding an inserted optical fiber, a ferrule end face facing a coupled-side optical connector ferrule, a lens structure provided on an axis line of the optical fiber holding hole on the ferrule end face, and an inspection hole formed along the optical fiber holding hole. The ferrule end face is flat on at least an axis line of the inspection hole, and refractive-index distribution in an area between the ferrule end face and a back side thereof is uniform.
Claims9
An optical connector ferrule, comprising:
- a resin;
- an optical fiber holding hole being a through-hole reaching a first surface, the optical fiber holding hole configured to hold an inserted optical fiber;
- a lens structure provided on an axis line of the optical fiber holding hole;
- and
- an inspection hole being a through-hole formed along the optical fiber holding hole and reaching the first surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.