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US 2024/0393545 A1Published application
Four-port horizontal miniature duplex connector adapter
AssigneeLeviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorsAmelia Ann Brown, Jon Riley
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Abstract
A miniature duplex connector (MDC) adapter is designed accommodate four MDC ports while maintaining a footprint or cross-sectional profile that is similar to that of an LC quad adapter, thereby allowing the MDC adapter to be used in fiber cassettes or other fiber enclosures that are designed to use LC quad adapters. The adapter's MDC ports are oriented horizontally and arranged in a 2×2 array. The adapter design can be expanded to accommodate larger numbers of ports using a similar port arrangement.
Claims20
A fiber optic adapter, comprising:
- an adapter body;
- and
- at least four ports, formed on a front face of the adapter body, having rectangular footprints and configured to receive respective fiber optic connectors,
- wherein the at least four ports are oriented horizontally and are arranged in an N×M array, where N and M are equal or non-equal integers greater than one.
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A fiber optic adapter, comprising:
- an adapter body in which four or more fiber optic ports are formed,
- wherein
- the four or more fiber optic ports are configured to receive fiber optic connectors having rectangular profiles,
- the four or more fiber optic ports comprise at least two first fiber optic ports that are oriented horizontally and arranged vertically and at least two second fiber optic ports that are oriented horizontally and arranged vertically, and
- the at least two first fiber optic ports and the at least two second fiber optic ports are arranged horizontally.
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A fiber optic adapter, comprising:
- an adapter body;
- a first set of vertically stacked fiber optic ports formed on a front face of the adapter body;
- and
- a second set of vertically stacked fiber optic ports formed on the front face of the adapter body,
- wherein
- respective ports of the first set and the second set have rectangular profiles and are oriented horizontally, and
- the first set and the second set are arranged horizontally.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.