| 摘要 |
An optical connector is disclosed which includes self-closing shutters (70) to protect the optical contacts from environmental contamination when male (90) and female (42) portions of the connector are disconnected. The optical connector is comprised of male and female portions having means for permitting interconnection while the male and female portions are slightly axially misaligned. The male and fenale connectors are mounted in a floating manner with respect to their flanges by using coil springs . The male and female contact pins have both tapered sections to ease the engagement in case of slight misalignment. Male and female portions of the optical connector each contain one or more spring loaded (60) optical contacts protected by a shutter mechanism and having a body (46) with a spring loaded shutter cap (52) and a shutter disk (70). The shutter disk contains two apertures (58a,58b) which can be made to align with two apertures in the cap of the shutter when the shutter is rotated to an open position. The optical contacts contained in each portion of the optical connector are exposed for interconnection when the male and female portions of the optical connector are joined together. <IMAGE> |
