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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2018
Panduit Corp., Tinley Park, IL (US);
Richard J. Pimpinella, Frankfort, IL (US);
Daniel E. Host, Oak Lawn, IL (US);
Jose M. Castro, Naperville, IL (US);
Panduit Corp., Tinley Park, IL (US);
Abstract
A connector assembly has a male portion and a female portion. The male portion has a pair of electrical contacts and ends of a pair of plastic optical fibers attached. The female portion has a set of through-holes configured to accept the electrical contacts of the male portion and the ends of the plastic optical fibers attached to the male portion such that the plastic optical fibers of the male portion abut plastic optical fibers secured to the female portion within the through-holes of the female portion. In one embodiment, the male portion has a cylindrical shroud configured to accept a cylindrical protrusion on the female portion. The female portion also has a nut rotatably attached with internal threads configured to engage external threads located on the cylindrical shroud of the male portion.