Molex Corporation

Stratos International, Inc.

Amphenol Corporation

David G Mead

Richard C E Durrant

Theodore Washburn

Christopher M Warnes

Aleksandr Lantsman

Hazelton P Avery

David E Dunham

Donald W Duda

Jeannette H Legge

Emanual G Banakis

Emanuel G Banakis

Daniel G Achammer

David S Rifkin

Eric Walter

Wenzong Chen

A device includes a stub, and an optical fiber. The stub has an aperture, and a first end and a second end. The optical fiber is mounted in the aperture of the stub. The optical fiber has a first end and a second end. The first end of the optical fiber is polished so as to be flush with the first end of the stub. The second end of the optical fiber is cleaved at a predetermined position so as to provide for a predetermined length of the optical fiber measured from the first end of the optical fiber to the second end of the optical fiber.

Stub having an optical fiber

An electrical connector is adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a forward mating end and a rear terminating end, with a plurality of terminal-receiving passages extending therebetween. A plurality of terminals are received in the passages and include tail portions projecting from the housing. At least one ground member is mounted on the housing and includes a ground contact arm projecting forwardly for engaging a complementary mating connector. An ESD clip projects downwardly from the ground member for insertion into an appropriate mounting hole in the printed circuit board. A tail aligner is mounted to the rear end of the housing and has a plurality of apertures through which the end portions of the terminals extend.

Grounded electrical connector with tail aligner

A shielded electrical connector is mountable on a printed circuit board in association with an adapter for receiving a complementary mating connector. The connector includes a dielectric housing mounting a plurality of terminals having tail portions projecting from the housing for connection to appropriate circuit traces on the printed circuit board. A metal shield is mounted to the housing about the tail portions of the terminals. The shield includes at least one ESD clip for insertion into an appropriate hole in the printed circuit board, at least one ground contact arm for engaging the complementary mating connector, at least one grounding tab for engaging the adapter and at least one grounding leg for connection to an appropriate ground circuit on the printed circuit board.

Shielded electrical connector

An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing having a plurality of terminal-receiving passages. A plurality of terminals are inserted into the passages in an insertion direction. The terminals have tool-engaging surfaces on opposite sides thereof, exposed opposite the insertion direction, for engagement by appropriate terminal-engaging tooling. The terminals have outwardly spaced, inwardly facing retention surfaces for engaging outwardly facing retention surfaces of the housing for establishing a press-fit to retain the terminals in the housing. Surrounding walls are not required to hold the terminals in the housing.

Electrical connector with inserted terminals

A shield for the end of a fiber optic connector or fiber optic connector adapter is disclosed. The shield includes a radiation absorbing element which prevents significant amounts of potentially harmful electromagnetic radiation from being discharged through the end of a connector or adapter.

Radiation absorbing shield for fiber optic systems

An adhesiveless fiber optic connector includes a collet mechanism having cable gripping fingers for initially gripping a fiber buffer upon movement of the collet into a body of the connector, and which is subsequently secured within the connector by crimping, includes keying tabs which cooperate with slots in the main body of the connector for retaining the collet within the connector prior to termination, and for preventing rotation of the collet during termination, the keying tabs being pushed out of the slots during termination to adhere to the main body of the connector following crimping. An apparatus for facilitating termination of a fiber optic cable to such an adhesiveless connector includes a transport mechanism to which the fiber buffer is clipped, and a guiding mechanism in the form of separable jaws for the exposed fiber, as well as a crimp mechanism and fiber cutting and polishing apparatus. The apparatus can be used to carry out a method involving the steps of preparing the fiber cable for termination, capturing a bare fiber in a guiding mechanism, securing the fiber buffer to a transporting mechanism, and transporting the cable so that the cable is guided by the guiding mechanism into the collet, after which the transporting mechanism is used to push the collet into the connector and force keys of the collet out of their slots and grip the fiber buffer.

Adhesiveless fiber optic connector, and an apparatus and method for

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David G Mead