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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1998
Ritch Allen Selfridge, Sidney, NY (US);
Robert Kenneth Chapman, West Winfield, NY (US);
Amphenol Corporation, Wallingford, CT (US);
Abstract
A fiber optic connector system is made up of a socket contact and a pin contact arranged to be installed in a cylindrical multiple contact connector, each contact including a fiber optic connector that has been terminated to a ribbon cable and captured between two halves of a cylindrical contact body, the socket contact being spring loaded to provide an engagement force between the two contacts when assembled into a housing. The pin and socket contacts may be installed in a wide variety of connector housings configured to receive cylindrical contacts, including the MIL-C-38999 family of connector shells, utilizing existing coupling and mounting arrangements, with the optional addition in the plug connector of a torsion spring biased shutter arranged to shield the ends of the fibers before coupling, and which is moved by a cam surface in the receptacle connector of the fiber optic connector system to uncover the ends of the fibers during coupling.