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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1995
John J DeAndrea, Monmouth Junction, NJ (US);
Francis T Delahanty, Newton, PA (US);
Allan Heiney, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Bill H Reysen, Stewartsville, NJ (US);
Donald Simon, Princeton, NJ (US);
Richard G Wheeler, Robbinsville, NJ (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Improved connectors for optically coupling a fiber optic transmission line and an opto-electronic device electrically interfaced to a substrate. The improved connectors include the opto-electronic device being mounted on the substrate, such as a printed circuit board, and means for mounting the fiber optic transmission line to the substrate such that the operative axis of the opto-electronic device is substantially not coincidental with the light transmission axis of the fiber optic transmission line. The connectors also require light bending means in operative optical association with said opto-electronic device for directing along the light transmission axis of the fiber optic transmission line at least a portion of the light emitted from said opto-electronic device or for directing along the operative axis of said opto-electronic device at least a portion of the light emitted from said fiber optic transmission line. Applicants have discovered that a connector provided in accordance with the present invention overcomes many of the difficulties associated with prior art connectors of this type.