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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:
Aug. 05, 1980
Filed:
May. 01, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wilfred H Turley, Kingsthorpe, GB;
John A Robinson, Kingsthorpe, GB;
Assignee:
Plessey Handel und Investments AG, Zug, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9621 ;
Abstract
An optical fibre connector in which cylindrical probes fitted to optical fibres are insertable into the opposite ends of the resiliently self-centering guide means which retains the two probes in co-axial end-to-end contact, the self-centering guide means comprise cylindrical precision rollers held in angularly-spaced relationship about a common axis by means of a cage structure which is itself surrounded by annular spring means of the guide means.