Patent · US Expired

Housing mountable on printed circuit board to interconnect fiber optic connectors

US4547039A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 16, 1982
Grant dateOct 15, 1985
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 16, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/4269
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A housing member has a profiled bore extending therethrough in one section of which a ferrule member containing an electro-optic member is secured by a removable retaining clip member that also acts as a heat sink member. Another ferrule member of a fiber optic connector terminated onto a fiber optic transmission member is disposed in another section of the profiled bore and is latchably secured therein by spring latching members secured in the housing.

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