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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1994
Arthur W Carlisle, Dunwoody, GA (US);
Wayne D Granger, Lilburn, GA (US);
Jeffrey H Hicks, Lilburn, GA (US);
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber connector includes a wedge for gripping one or more buffered optical fibers. The wedge comprises a body portion having an opening that extends through it from one end to the other through a longitudinal axis of the wedge for receiving the pair of optical fibers contained within a cable. The wedge further includes a pair of flexible cantilevers that extend from one end of the body portion along a direction that is parallel to the longitudinal axis. Each cantilever includes an inner surface that faces the inner surface of the other cantilever, and each inner surface includes an like number of grooves that are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the wedge. The grooves grip the pair of buffered optical fibers when compressed by crimping a surrounding bushing, and thereby restrain the optical fibers from being pulled back into the cable during handling. The cantilevers are symmetrically positioned on opposite sides of a plane which contains the longitudinal axis of the wedge.