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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1989
Wallace R Savitsky, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Ronald R Schaffer, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Gary N Warner, Harrisburg, PA (US);
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Abstract
A termination for optical members comprises an alignment ferrule 1 and an optical fiber member 3 having a buffer 4 and an optical fiber 2. The alignment ferrule 10 has a tubular passagway 22 for encircling the buffer 4 and the optical fiber 2, and a tip 9 with centrally disposed aperture 13 therethrough for closely receiving an end of the fiber 2 from the tubular passsageway 22. The tubular passageway 22 of the alignment ferrule has a connection section with inwardly directed threads 32. The termination 7 further comprises a crimping body 8 of deformable, elastic material intimately surrounding the flexible buffer 4 and fiber 2. The crimping body 8 has a connection section 29 with outwardly directed threads 31 which engage with the inwardly directed threads 32 of the passageway 22 of ferrule 1.