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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Carl R Sandahl, Morristown, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9621 ;
Abstract
An optical fiber connector includes a male connector portion having at least three cylindrical inner rods held in tangential contact with each other. The inner rods form an opening which contains and accurately positions an optical fiber within the male connector portion. A female connector portion has at least three cylindrical outer rods arranged to form a nest to accommodate the inner rods. Nesting of the inner rods within the outer rods positions the fiber, with a high degree of accuracy, within the female connector portion.