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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2004
Takaya Yamauchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiko Yazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Takaya Yamauchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiko Yazaki, Tokyo, JP;
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber connecting device has a pair of holding elements which are formed on an actuating member and are capable of undergoing elastic deformation as a sheath holding mechanism for securing, to a body, the sheath portions S of the optical fibers F having uncoated fiber elements C to be held by the fiber-element securing member. The holding elements form a pair of passages for guiding the optical fibers F on the body. The holding elements undergo the elastic deformation accompanying the motion, on the body, of the actuating member for closing the fiber-element securing member, and push and hold the sheath portions S of the optical fibers F in the corresponding passages by utilizing their own elastic restoring forces. Each holding element includes a pressing part formed at a free end separated away from a fixed end part, and an engaging part positioned between the fixed end part and the pressing part.