MINIATURE ADAPTER FOR MPO PLUG

• US 20190317281A1
• Filed: 02/19/2019
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sanwa Denki Kogyo Co Ltd
• Original Assignee: Sanwa Denki Kogyo Co Ltd
• Inventors: WATANABE, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,739,527 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3821 with axial spring biasing or loading means G02B6/3847 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3825 with an intermediate part, e.g. adapter, receptacle, linking two plugs
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3831 comprising a keying element on the plug or adapter, e.g. to forbid wrong connection keying element on the ferrule G02B6/3851; keying element for electrical coupling H01R13/64
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3885 Multicore or multichannel optical connectors, i.e. one single ferrule containing more than one fibre, e.g. ribbon type optical ribbon cable G02B6/4403, G02B6/448
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3893 Push-pull type, e.g. snap-in, push-on

Abstract

The invention provides a miniature adapter for MPO plug which can make the adapter small to the limit so as to be the same size as a plug, can be mounted at a high density without any restriction in an arrangement place and can be manufactured with a simple structure at a low cost. An adapter main body is formed into a tubular shape by upper and lower wall portions which are approximately flush with upper and lower wall portions of a coupling, and left and right wall portions which are approximately flush with left and right wall portions of the coupling, and is provided in both front and rear ends of the left and right wall portions of the adapter main body with elastic locking portions which are provided so as to face to a side of plug insertion and removal opening portions.

Claims

1. An adapter for MPO plug formed by an adapter main body, the adapter main body comprising:

a plug insertion and removal opening portion provided for interconnecting a plug main body and communicating back and forth; and

the plug main body comprising as primary members;

a spring push which is provided in a rear end portion of the plug main body;

a coupling which is mounted to the plug main body so as to be slidable back and forth in a forward side of the spring push; and

a spring which elastically biases the coupling to a forward side of the plug main body,

wherein the adapter main body is formed into a tubular shape by upper and lower wall portions which are approximately flush with the upper and lower wall portions of the coupling, and right and left wall portions which are approximately flush with the right and left wall portions of the coupling, and is provided in both front and rear ends of the right and left wall portions of the adapter main body with elastic locking portions which are provided so as to face to the plug insertion and removal opening portion side, and

wherein the locking of the adapter main body in relation to the elastic locking portion is retained by a forward movement of the coupling in dependence on an elastic biasing force of the spring to the forward side of the plug main body, and the locking of the adapter main body in relation to the elastic locking portion is disengaged by a rearward movement of the spring against the elastic biasing force to the forward side of the plug main body, thereby capable of getting out.

2. The adapter for the MPO plug according to claim 1, wherein the elastic locking portion of the adapter main body is structured such that a locking projection is formed on a front end inner surface thereof, a catch portion formed into a concave groove shape between a pair of front and rear locking convex portions is provided in a protruding manner in a front end of the plug main body, and the locking projection formed in the front end inner surface of the elastic locking portion eats into and locked to the catch portion which is exposed by the coupling front end pressed by the elastic locking portion against the elastic biasing force of the spring to the forward side of the plug main body after climbing over the locking convex portion in the forward side, on the basis of a forced insertion of the plug main body into the adapter main body.

3. The adapter for the MPO plug according to claim 1, wherein vertical groove-shaped notch portions are provided at the centers of outer surface portions of the right and left wall portions in the adapter main body, the vertical groove-shaped notch portions fitting to a predetermined insertion position of a panel for mounting at a high density.

4. The adapter for the MPO plug according to claim 3, wherein the notch portions are fitted to partition portions of the panel for mounting at the high density, the partition portions being formed into an upward open C-shaped frame shape and provided in a rising manner at uniform intervals.

5. The adapter for the MPO plug according to claim 1, wherein the adapter main body is structured such that a key groove with which a key projection in the plug main body side engages is formed to an inside center portion of the adapter main body along a sliding direction of the plug main body, at the center of an inner surface of a lower wall portion of the one plug insertion and removal opening portion and the center of an inner surface of an upper wall portion of the other plug insertion and removal opening portion, the key projection of the plug main body has the same length as that of the key groove, a front end of the key projection is locked to a rear end of the key groove, and the plug main body is arranged at a predetermined position of the adapter main body.

6. The adapter for the MPO plug according to claim 1, wherein a polygonal tubular adapter cover having an accommodation portion in its inner portion is provided, and the adapter main body is stored and arranged at a predetermined position of the accommodation portion of the adapter cover.

7. The adapter for the MPO plug according to claim 1, wherein the adapter main body is integrally formed by a plastic member which is a thin plate, has elasticity and has light weight.