Plug connection for optical waveguides

US6652157B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ESCHA BAUELEMENTE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Schmidt · Rengsdorf, DE
• Jurgen Bohn · Lüdenscheid, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 24, 2002
• Grant date: Nov 25, 2003
• Expiry date: May 24, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3855
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A plug connector for an optical waveguide (5), which has a sheathed, light-conducting core (1) and an outer cladding (3) which surrounds the core sheathing (2), having a plug part (6), which can be plugged together with a mating plug part (7), the plug part (6) forming a tube (8) for insertion of the core (1), which can be severed flush with the tube end (9), and the mating plug part (7) forming a shaft (10) for insertion of the tube (8), which shaft (10) at the foot side is directed toward a transmitting/receiving element (11). It is of relevance that the plug part (6) is of two-part configuration, having a retaining part (12), which includes the tube (8) and holding parts (13, 14) for the core sheathing (2) and also the outer cladding (3), and a cap part (15), which can be clipped in a watertight manner to the retaining part (12) and has a passage opening for the optical waveguide (5).