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Optical fiber guide connection

  • US 5,216,732 A
  • Filed: 03/09/1992
  • Issued: 06/01/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Means for effecting disconnectable optical connections between multiplicities of optical guides, which optical connecting means comprises a mechanical connector comprising two separately formed body parts adapted to make a disconnectable plug and socket connection the one with the other and a plurality of optical fibre connectors each comprising at least two separately formed mating body parts, each of which mating body parts has at least one substantially flat end face with which end faces of a plurality of optical fibres secured in said body part are substantially co-planar, at least one body part of each of the plurality of optical fibre connectors being slidably mounted in and with respect to one body part of the mechanical connector with its axis substantially parallel to the axis of said body part of the mechanical connector and with each of its optical fibres adapted to be optically connected to one of a multiplicity of optical guides and being urged by resilient means housed in said body part of the mechanical connector in a rectilinear direction substantially parallel to said axes towards the mating end of said body part of the mechanical connector.

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