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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. 31, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Rohm Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 35 ; 385 33 ; 385 34 ; 385 77 ; 385 78 ; 385 88 ; 385 93 ; 385 85 ; 385 52 ;
Abstract
An optical fiber receptacle has a glass rod lens in its one end side and a front end of an optical fiber to be connected to the opposite end side of the receptcle is brought into physical contact with a spherical surface of the glass rod lens to thereby make the optical fiber optically couple with an optical element to be provided on the glass rod lens side, wherein a housing including a sleeve for insertion of the front end of the optical fiber therein is fixed to a lens holder for fixedly holding the glass rod lens by fusion so that the center of the sleeve and the center of the spherical surface of the glass rod lens are aligned.