Optical pin-and-socket connector and process for manufacturing optical pin-and-socket connectors

US5761358A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Kuchenbecker · Berlin, DE
• Norbert Weiss · Sickte, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 24, 1996
• Grant date: Jun 2, 1998
• Expiry date: May 24, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3821
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Coupling end-pieces (20, 21) with axial bores (22, 23) are mounted in a separate front part (25). A cable end (3) with two optical fibers (8,9) is fixed in a main part (1). The ends (10, 11) of the fibers project at the front part side and extend in axially parallel fashion at a distance (29) from the axial bores (22, 23). The front part (25) can slide perpendicularly to the ends (10, 11) of the fibers in order to allow alignment of the axial bores (22, 23) with the ends (10, 11) of the fibers.