Plug connector for light waveguides and method for the manufacture thereof

US6152609A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Dzyck · Neustadt, DE
• Helmar Krupp · Gevelsberg, DE
• Rainer Zimmer · Breckerfeld, DE
• Rainer Matthias Kossat · Aschau, DE
• Heinz Glaser · Germering, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 26, 1999
• Grant date: Nov 28, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 26, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3898
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A plug connection for connecting a light waveguide to a plug has a plug member with a connecting light waveguide extending from one side thereof having an end being spliced to a light waveguide of a light waveguide cable and at least one strain relief element being passed over the splice and connected to the plug member. The method of forming the plug connection includes providing a sufficient length of both the connecting light waveguide extending from the plug member and the light waveguide of the cable so that a connection in a normal, known splicing apparatus can be obtained outside of the position of the plug member and then conducting the strain relief element over the splice region and connecting it to the plug member.