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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2000
Roger E. Weiss, Foxborough, MA (US);
Daniel P. Vladic, Antioch, IL (US);
Philip W. Schofield, Oak Park, IL (US);
Stratos Lightwave, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A massive parallel (MP) connector is provided which includes a fiber optic connector having a polymer female having multiple fibers mounted in V-grooves of the ferrule and beveled edges of the ferrule providing for alignment of the ferrule when the MP fiber optic connector is mated to a receptacle having an alignment assembly and an alignment member mounted within the alignment assembly to provide for precision alignment. A receptacle assembly is provided having a first receptacle half for receiving a fiber optic connector having a first form factor and a second receptacle half for receiving a fiber optic connector having a second form factor. A fiber optical ferrule is also provided having a pair of mutually opposing ferrule halves that join to define a fiber optical support region that receives optical fibers, where at least one of the ferrule halves includes a vertically aligned wall that protrudes towards the opposing ferrule half, and the ferrule half contains a beveled edge for aligning the fiber optical ferrule within a receptacle for optical connection with another connector.