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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 12, 1995
Robert Rickenbach, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Gilbert F Perleberg, Goleta, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a rotary joint for optical fibers comprising a plug assembly and a first ferrule having a fiber-entry end mounted coaxially therein, a receptacle assembly and a second ferrule having a fiber-entry end mounted coaxially therein, wherein at least one of the plug-mounted ferrule and the receptacle-mounted ferrule is biased outwardly from a fiber entry-end of the ferrule, and an alignment sleeve for optically connecting the first and second ferrules and maintaining the optical connection during rotation of one of the plug assembly and the receptacle assembly about an axis parallel to a longitudinal direction of the assembly relative to the other of the plug assembly and the receptacle assembly.