Optical connector
AssigneeHosiden Corporation
InventorsKeiji Mine, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Takeshi Isoda
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Abstract
An optical connector to be connected to an optical plug holding optical fibers includes: a light-emitting element; a light-receiving element; and sleeves that optically connect the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element to optical fibers of the optical plug, respectively, in which a transmission sleeve and a reception sleeve are connected to each other via a link section to form a sleeve unit. The sleeve unit is secured by press-fitting the link section into a connector body. A stress caused by the press fitting is not exerted to the transmission sleeve and the reception sleeve, so that the optical functions (optical properties) of the sleeves can be prevented from being compromised by the stress.
Claims6
An optical connector to be connected to an optical plug holding optical fibers, comprising:
- a connector body having a recess formed in a front face thereof for receiving there into the optical plug and two receiving tubes formed inside said recess integrally with said connector body for receiving there into two optical fibers of the optical plug;
- a light-emitting element;
- a light-receiving element;
- a transmission sleeve and a reception sleeve inserted in said two receiving tubes for optically connecting the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element to optical fibers of said optical plug, respectively,
- a link section for connecting said transmission sleeve and said reception sleeve to each other to form a sleeve unit, and
- wherein said sleeve unit is secured by a portion of said link section fitted into said connector body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.