US 4,568,145 AGranted

Connection device for a cable incorporating optical fibers and metal conductors

AssigneeLes Cables de Lyon

InventorsGerard Colin, Christian Kerduel

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Abstract

A connection device for a cable incorporating optical fibres and metal conductors. A connection device for a cable incorporating both optical fibres (10) and metal conductors (34), comprising (a) a socket including a barrel with male electrical connection members (25), a ferrule containing the optical fibres (28) and an angular position defining device (29), and (b) a connector including a barrel with female electrical connection members (6), a ferrule containing the optical fibres (9) and an angular position defining device. The connector and/or socket are connected to a body (2) joined to the end of a cable and comprising means (30, 31, 32, 33) permitting relative rotation of the connector and/or socket relative to the end of the corresponding cable.

Claims4

Dependent claims

In a connection device for connecting first and second cable ends incorporating both optical fibers (10) and metal conductors (34), said device comprising:

(a) a socket member including a barrel with male electrical connection members (25), a ferrule containing the optical fibres (10) and an angular position defining device (29), and
(b) a connector member including a barrel with female electrical connection members (6), a ferrule containing the optical fibres (10) and an angular position defining device,
the improvement wherein one of the connector member and the socket member includes a shroud fixedly coupled to said first cable end a body (2) rotatably mounted to said shroud, and means (30, 31, 32 33) for limiting rotation of said body relative to said shroud to close to 360.degree., and said device further comprising means for fixedly coupling said socket member to said connector member to effect a low decibel transmission loss between said optical fibers, and the other of said connector member and socket member being fixedly connected to said second cable end.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 06/678,362Filed 4 Dec 1984 · continuation
Priority: FR 81 1629226 Aug 1981
Granted: 4 Feb 1986
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

G02B 6/444
Auxiliary devices: systems or boxes with surplus lengths
G02B 6/3817
Of the ferrule type, e.g. fibre ends embedded in ferrules, connecting a pair of fibres: containing optical and electrical conductors
G02B 6/3823
Of the ferrule type, e.g. fibre ends embedded in ferrules, connecting a pair of fibres: containing surplus lengths, internal fibre loops
G02B 6/3882
Connectors using guide surfaces for aligning ferrule ends, e.g. tubes, sleeves, V-grooves, rods, pins, balls: using rods, pins or balls to align a…