The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Toshihiko Oota

Hiroyuki Yamada

Takashi Shigematsu

Jun Yamakawa

Michito Matsumoto

Yasuo Uemura

Tadashi Haibara

Masami Saito

Masao Ishikawa

A multicore optical connector includes a connector body having a pair of alignment pin holes and a plurality of optical fiber holes formed therebetween and optical fibers inserted in the optical fiber holes such that the end faces of the optical fibers are exposed through the optical fiber holes. In the multicore optical connector, the optical fiber holes are divided into optical fiber hole groups of a number which coincides with the number of the groups of the optical fibers, and the optical fiber hole groups are separated from one another.

Multicore optical connector with partitions to separate the optical

Disclosed is an optical switching connector including a ferrule plate, which fixes an end of an optical fiber to a predetermined position, has pin grooves formed in parallel at its both ends, and has at least one of its pin grooves formed to a width enabling horizontal movement of a reference pin, pin holding members which position the reference pin in said pin grooves, and a frame body which houses said ferrule plate and pin holding members. The optical switching connector is characterized in that the pin holding members are provided individually for each pin groove and provision is made at the both sides of the pin grooves of members for pressing the pin holding members corresponding to the pin grooves where the reference pins can move horizontally to the ferrule plate.

Optical switching connector

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshihiko Oota