AN OPTICAL FIBRE CONNECTOR

摘要

A connector (1) comprises a main body (2), and a pair of sockets (3). Each socket (3) comprises a pair of opposed resilient walls in the overall configuration of a split tube. The connector (1) also comprises a transversely sliding clamp (4) with two tapered slots (8), located so that one of the sockets (3) passes through each slot (8). After fibre terminations are pushed into the sockets (3) through the clamp (4) slots (8), the clamp is simply slid in a plane across the socket (3) axes so that the narrower ends of the slots (8) engage the opposed split tube resilient walls of each socket. This squeezes each socket so that the opposed split tube resilient walls press against the associated fibre termination and retains it in place. The sockets may have guide slots for guiding clamp movement. In most embodiments the clamp moves in a translational movement, but in another example the clamp rotates in the lateral plane to squeeze the sockets.