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Overlap type waveguide connector assembly and method

  • US 4,186,997 A
  • Filed: 02/14/1977
  • Issued: 02/05/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an optical waveguide overlap connector, the improvement comprising:

  • a pair of optical waveguides mounted in a pair of intermateable rigid connector bodies having identical mating faces which are provided with rigid grooves receiving therein said optical waveguides, said mating faces abuttingly cooperating to bring said grooves into mutual alignment enclosing said optical waveguides,pads of resilient compressible material initially projecting from mounted positions recessed within said mating faces, said pads being provided with grooves which are colinear with the rigid grooves of said mating faces and which initially receive therein corresponding end portions of said optical waveguides, andsaid pads being resiliently compressed together sealably surrounding said waveguide end portions upon cooperation of said mating faces, and said pads being yieldably compressed into enclosing relation with said end portions of said waveguides colinearally aligning the central axes thereof.

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