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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:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul M. Mulligan, Yorkville, IL (US);
Carl W. Lindenmeyer, Geneva, IL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/36 ;
Abstract
A connector is provided which has a ferrule forcibly, intimately connected to a plastic optical fiber by forcibly deforming the ferrule into intimate contact with the plastic optical fiber over a preselected length. The fiber and ferrule are free of adhesive, have a machined planar end oriented 90 degrees relative to the axis of the ferrule and plastic optical fiber and have a preselected, carefully controlled length.