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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2015
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuyoshi Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Kazumoto Kondo, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuaki Toba, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhisa Nakajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Miyazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanari Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A collimator lensemits by converting a light signal from an optical fiber cableto a collimated light, for example. The collimator lensis retained in a plug housingcoupled to a reception side optical connector of the light signal. When the plug housingis not coupled to the reception side optical connector, the pressing portionsets the position of the collimator lensat a position at which the emitted light signal has a predetermined divergence angle. When the optical connectors of the transmission side and the reception side are not connected, the light signal emitted from the optical connector of the transmission side is dispersed, and therefore emission of the light signal is prevented from giving a bad influence to a visual perception function or the like.