Optical connector

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To attain the low-loss connection of optical fibers and the extremely stable reproducibility of attachment and detachment by providing guide pin holes for insertion of guide pins to inscribe guide pin grooves of a positioning member onto these guide pin grooves and constituting the circumference of the guide pin holes of a material having the Young's modulus smaller than the Young's modulus of the optical fiber positioning member. CONSTITUTION:The guide pin grooves 13 of the positioning member 1 are formed thereon with the guide pin holes 2 in the form of inscribing these grooves and the circumference of the guide pin holes 2 is constituted of the material having the Young's modulus lower than the Young's modulus of the positioning member 1, for example, such a molding resin as thermosetting epoxy resin. The guide pin holes 2 are deformed from A to B while the state of inscribing the guide pin V-grooves 13 of the positioning members 1 even if the diameter of the guide pins are slightly larger than the guide pin holes 2 in this case. The pitch of the guide pins to be inserted remains stable at all times in this way and the direction of the eccentricity by the deformation of the guide pin holes 2 is always kept in the specified direction and, therefore, the stable connection with the less fluctuation in the attachment and detachment is executed.

Inventors

• 👤 Kazuto Saito
• 👤 和人 斎藤
• 👤 Toshiaki Kakii
• 👤 俊昭 柿井
• 👤 Hidetoshi Ishida
• 👤 英敏 石田
• 👤 Shuzo Suzuki
• 👤 鈴木　修三
• 👤 Hisashi Murata
• 👤 久 村田
• 👤 Shinji Nagasawa
• 👤 真二 長沢

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