OPTICAL FERRULE AND MOLDING METHOD THEREFOR, AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR USING THIS OPTICAL FERRULE

摘要

An optical ferrule having a recess (17c), in which a gate (G) used at resin molding is disposed, formed in a ferrule body (11). According to the above arrangement, a flash (10), left after a gate portion in the recess (17c) of the molded ferrule body (11) has been cut off with a gate cutter, can be easily cut off deep; therefore, the flash (10) does not pose a trouble of sticking out from the recess (17c) to be caught on the inner wall face of a housing when the ferrule body (11) is fitted to the housing such as an MPO optical connector. Therefore, since an effort to remove the flash (10) by polishing is not needed to enhance the productivity of the ferrule body (11), a large number of ferrule bodies (11) can be automatically produced without human intervention.