Senko Advanced Components, Inc.

Heng Loong Lee

Kazuyoshi Takano

Kenji Iizumi

Siu Kei Ma

Takuya Ninomiya

Tyler Royer

A multifiber ferrule has a generally forward-facing angled ferrule contact surface that is skewed with respect to the widthwise axis of the ferrule such that the angled ferrule contact surface defines a widthwise skew angle with respect to the widthwise axis. A multifiber optical connector has a connector housing assembly that holds at least one of this type of ferrule. The connector housing assembly can hold two such ferrules so that the ferrule contact surfaces are angled in opposite widthwise directions and so that a broad side of the first ferrule opposes a broad side of the second ferrule in parallel, spaced apart relationship therewith. A polarity-changeable multifiber optical connector is also provided that includes a multifiber ferrule with a generally forward-facing ferrule contact surface at an oblique angle to the longitudinal axis.

Angled multifiber ferrule and optical fiber connectors

Fiber optic network systems are implemented, at least in part, using very small form factor (VSFF) interconnect components such as VSFF duplex connector; VSFF mechanical transfer ferrule (MT) connector; VSFF duplex uniboot connector; VSFF MT uniboot connector; VSFF duplex adapter; VSFF MT adapter; VSFF duplex pluggable transceiver; VSFF MT pluggable transceiver; VSFF patch cable assembly; VSFF trunk cable; and/or VSFF breakout cable. The VSFF fiber optic network systems can define fiber breakout cabling that connects large trunk cables to many peripheral network locations. The network systems can define branches and sub-branches from a trunk cable. The network systems can define cross-connect sub-networks between sets of transceivers or adapters. The network systems can define a trunk-to-transceiver cabling assembly for connecting a trunk cable to at least 32 transceiver ports.

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Puchong, Malaysia

Heng Loong Lee