Optical fibre connector.

摘要

A fibre-optic connection system comprises three interfitting plastic parts (12,18,24). A two-piece cable terminal (10) includes a cable receiving body (12) and a terminal body (18). The terminal body has two spaced projections (20,22) which mount the fibre ends (116,118) and has a pair of converging cable guide walls (76,78). The cable receiving body (12) has walls (96,98) with gripper teeth (102) complementary to the guide walls (76,78). When two cable strands (116,118) are introduced and the bodies (12,18) are interconnected to form the terminal connector (10), the walls (76-98) trap the cables (116,118). The fibre ends are finished by hot plate melting. The terminal connector (10) is inserted into a header (24) having pockets (140) to mount electro-optical devices (26). The pockets (140) have integral spring rails (158) to force the devices (26) into contact with the projections (20,22) containing the fibre ends upon assembly. A series of integral lock tangs (46,48,84,86,162) and shoulders (34,36,112,114) retain the component parts interconnected to prevent inadvertent disassembly.