Optical fiber cord fixing component

• US 6,485,196 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2001
• Issued: 11/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Furukawa Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Furukawa Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: Shiino, Masato, Shimoji, Naoko
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Robert H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): KEANEY, ELIZABETH MARIE
• Application Number:
  US09/893,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20020031311A1
• Time in Patent Office: 518 Days
• Field of Search: 385/87, 385/86, 385/76
• US Class Current: 385/87
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/3888 Protection from over-extension or over-compression

Abstract

A fixing component for fixing an optical fiber cord to an optical connector in a press-fitting manner by compression deformation is formed with a connected combination of a tension member fixing portion for fixing, in a press-fitting manner, a tension member of the optical fiber cord put on an outer peripheral surface of the optical connector to the outer peripheral surface and a sheath fixing portion for fixing, in a press-fitting manner, a sheath of the cord put on the outer peripheral surface of the connector to the outer peripheral surface, and has a slit formed between the tension member fixing portion and the sheath fixing portion, and adapted to absorb compressed and deformed part of either or both of the two fixing portions.

Claims

1. An optical fiber cord fixing component comprising:

a tension member fixing portion for fixing, in a press-fitting manner, a tension member of an optical fiber cord put on an outer peripheral surface of an optical connector to the outer peripheral surface by caulking;

a sheath fixing portion for fixing, in a press-fitting manner, a sheath of the cord put on the outer peripheral surface of the connector to the outer peripheral surface by caulking; and

a slit capable of absorbing a deformation of either or both of the tension member fixing portion and the sheath fixing portion by the caulking; and

wherein

said tension member fixing portion is integrally formed with said sheath fixing portion, and said slit is formed between the tension member fixing portion and the sheath fixing portion in a circumferential direction of both or either of the tension member fixing portion and the sheath fixing portion tubular in configuration.

2. An optical fiber cord fixing component according to claim 1, wherein the slit is formed at one or two or more points in the circumferential direction of the tension member fixing portion and the sheath fixing portion tubular in configuration.

3. An optical fiber cord fixing component according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the slit is formed elongate in a circumferential direction of both or either of the tension member fixing portion and the sheath fixing portion tubular in configuration.