Fiber splaying pin keeper for fiber optic connector
AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorsBryan Thomas Edwards, Rodney Gallagher, Shelly Ann Buchter, Robert Carl Briggs, David Donald Erdman
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Abstract
A pin keeper for use in a transition between a multiple fiber ferrule holding at least two fibers and having a fiber to fiber spacing substantially equal to a first lateral dimension and a fiber optic body having a fiber to fiber spacing substantially equal to a second lateral dimension which is different from said first lateral dimension. The pin keeper is disposed between the ferrule and the fiber optic body. The fibers pass through the pin keeper, which splays the fibers from the first lateral dimension to the second lateral dimension.
Claims10
A fiber optic subassembly comprising:
- a multiple fiber ferrule for mating to a mating connector and for holding at least two fibers and having a fiber to fiber spacing substantially equal to a first lateral dimension, a fiber optic body having a fiber to fiber spacing substantially equal to a second lateral spacing substantially equal to a second lateral dimension, and a pin keeper disposed between said ferrule and said fiber optic body and through which that at least two fibers pass, the pin keeper holding alignment pins for interengagement with the mating connector the pin keeper splaying said at least two fibers from the first lateral dimension to the second lateral dimension.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.