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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2011
Edmund Joseph Haley, Dillsburg, PA (US);
Christopher Ryan Raybold, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Evan Charles Wickes, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Jared Evan Rossman, Dover, PA (US);
Edmund Joseph Haley, Dillsburg, PA (US);
Christopher Ryan Raybold, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Evan Charles Wickes, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Jared Evan Rossman, Dover, PA (US);
Abstract
An optical communication connector having a connector housing that includes opposite mating and loading sides and a housing cavity that extends therebetween. The optical communication connector also includes an optical module that is positioned within the housing cavity and a biasing element that is positioned between the optical module and the loading side in the housing cavity. The biasing element has a module end, a back end, and a resilient spring portion that extends between the module and back ends. The spring portion includes an elongated body having a plurality of flexible bend segments that wrap back-and-forth within a spring plane. The spring portion is compressible between first and second states during a mating operation between the optical module and an optical connector.