Low cost hardened fiber optic connection system
AssigneeCommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
InventorPhilippe COENEGRACHT
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a ruggedized/hardened fiber optic connection system designed to reduce cost. In one example, selected features of a fiber optic adapter are integrated with a wall (24) of an enclosure (22). The adapter comprises a sleeve port (26) into which an optical adapter subassembly is inserted. The subassembly comprises a sleeve part (44) which is inserted into the sleeve, a ferrule alignment sleeve (48) which is inserted into the sleeve part, a ferrule (55) with hub which is inserted into the alignment sleeve, and fixing clip (46) securing the ferrule with hub into the alignment sleeve and the sleeve part.
Claims10
-34. (canceled)
A telecommunications device comprising:
- an environmentally sealed terminal housing suitable for outside environmental use, the terminal housing having a length, a width and a height, the terminal housing having opposite major sides that extend along the length and the width of the terminal housing, the terminal housing having opposite minor sides that extend along the length and the height of the terminal housing, and the terminal housing defining opposite ends that extend along the width and the height of the terminal housing;
- the terminal housing having a unitary one-piece molded plastic structure defining at least a portion of one of the ends of the terminal housing, the unitary one-piece molded plastic structure including a plurality of connector ports formed within and defined by the unitary one-piece molded structure, the connector ports extending along port axes that are parallel to one another, the connector ports being arranged in a row with each of the connector ports extending from an exterior of the terminal housing toward an interior of the terminal housing, each of the connector ports being configured for directly receiving a fiber optic connector from the exterior of the terminal housing;
- ferrule alignment sleeves positioned within the interior of the terminal housing in alignment with the connector ports, each of the ferrule alignment sleeves including a first end and a second end, the first ends facing toward the exterior of the terminal housing and the second ends facing toward the interior of the terminal housing, the first ends of the ferrule alignment sleeves being adapted to receive first ferrules corresponding to the fiber optic connectors when the fiber optic connectors are received in the connector ports from the exterior of the terminal housing;
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- second ferrules supporting optical fibers, the second ferrules being positioned within the second ends of the ferrule alignment sleeves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.