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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 04, 1988
James A Aberson, Jr, Atlanta, GA (US);
George F DeVeau, Stone Mountain, GA (US);
Kenneth M Yasinski, Ellenwood, GA (US);
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In an optical fiber connector in which each of two optical fibers (21-21) is terminated by a plug (40) having a passageway (41) for receiving an end portion of the optical fiber, eccentricity of one fiber end relative to the other is reduced by causing each optical fiber to be mounted in a specified orientation with respect to its associated plug passageway. In one embodiment, because the two cylindrical plugs which are used in the connector are derived from contiguous segments (111-111) of length of tubular stock, because the plugs are arranged so that the contiguous ends of the plugs before separation from the stock become the mating ends in the connection and because the plugs after separation from each other have the same rotational orientation with respect to each other as before, the predetermined orientation of the fiber ends in the plug passageways of the two adjoining plugs prior to separation of the segments from the stock reduces substantially any eccentricity which otherwise would be caused by the random mounting of the fibers in the associated passageways.