Optical connector
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorTomohiro Hikosaka
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Abstract
An optical connector includes a lens body having a lens portion, a fiber optic transceiver having an optical element, a housing, an biasing portion configured to bias the fiber optic transceiver toward the lens portion, and a plurality of abutment convex portions provided on at least one of the lens body and the fiber optic transceiver such that the fiber optic transceiver biased toward the lens body by the biasing portion is arranged in parallel to the lens body with a uniform gap between the fiber optic transceiver and the lens body in a direction along an optical axis of the optical element.
Claims3
An optical connector comprising:
- a lens body having a lens portion;
- a fiber optic transceiver having an optical element which is provided at a position facing the lens portion when the fiber optic transceiver is assembled to the lens body;
- a housing having a containing portion in which the lens body and the fiber optic transceiver assembled to the lens body are contained;
- a biasing portion configured to bias the fiber optic transceiver contained in the containing portion toward the lens portion;
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- a plurality of abutment convex portions provided on at least one of the lens body and the fiber optic transceiver such that the fiber optic transceiver biased toward the lens body by the biasing portion is arranged in parallel to the lens body with a uniform gap between the fiber optic transceiver and the lens body in a direction along an optical axis of the optical element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.