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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1992
Frederic H Abendschein, Columbia, PA (US);
Edmund J Haley, Dillsburg, PA (US);
Alan E Plotts, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Robert N Weber, Hummelstown, PA (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A multi-fiber fiber-optic connector is provided containing a cartridge having a front radial flange containing peripheral, circumferentially-spaced notches in each of which a fiber-optic terminal is axially positioned, and having a rear radial flange containing peripheral, circumferentially-spaced notches in each of which a fiber-optic clamp body is axially positioned. The fiber-optic terminals are spring-biased forwardly toward the open end of the connector, and a preload plate holds them in a preloaded state. Each of the terminals is provided at its outer end with a surrounding, axially-extending resilient split sleeve, the outer end of which is empty to receive a fiber-optic terminal of a mating conductor similar to the above-described connector, but without the split sleeves. Each fiber extends between the front flange and the rear flange non-axially, the crimp-held end of each fiber instead being aligned with the fiber-optic terminal circumferentially next to the one which is aligned with the crimp body for that fiber.