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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. 27, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
John F Mead, Princes Risborough, GB;
Assignee:
Plessey Handel und Investments AG, Zug, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9621 ; 350 9618 ;
Abstract
Connection between optical fibres must be very precise to avoid light loss across the connection and it is an object of this invention to provide a connector which can be used to connect fibres accurately, in poor lighting conditions and in the minimum of time. This is achieved by providing a connector consisting of two identical couplers each having a probe over which is slidably mounted a probe-gripping collet. The two couplers are aligned with the probes of the couplers aligned and abutting, and one of the collets of one of the couplers is moved along to span the abuttment between the two probes, thus holding the probes in precise alignment.