Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Kiichi Suzuki

Hitoshi Yokono

Aizo Kaneda

Hidemi Sato

Kiyohide Miyake

Atsuyoshi Ohashi

Toshiro Kodama

A connector means includes a connector housing provided with a plurality of bores which is defined by a pair of plastic bases each having a plurality of hemicycle grooves each of which has an inner diameter 1 to several .mu.m larger than an outer diameter of each of the optical cables to be connected. After the optical fibres are inserted into the respective bores and secured therein, one end surface of the connector housing is polished. A pair of connected housings are retained so that the polished end surfaces abut on each other thereby to attain a connection between a plurality of optical cables.

Method for assembling flat type plastic multifiber connectors

An optical fiber connector comprising a pair of plugs, a sleeve and a pair of cap nuts which is assembled at the site where optical fibers are installed, so as to connect the optical fibers with a high degree of positional accuracy. The plugs and the sleeve are molded of a composition including a synthetic resin added with a suitable content of a filler, such as glass beads.

Optical fiber connector

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Yokosuka, Japan

Kiichi Suzuki