Patent ID: 11940657
Assignee: US CONEC LTD.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A backplane adapter for a pair of fiber optic connectors, each of the pair of fiber optic connectors having a fiber optic connector housing, the backplane adapter comprising:
a main body with an outer stop surface configured to engage a stop portion of a fiber optic connector housing from a printed circuit board side of a backplane holding the backplane adapter; and
an alignment passageway within the main body of the backplane adapter to receive an alignment feature on the fiber optic connector housing, the alignment passageway having a length that is longer than a length of the alignment feature, the stop portion of the fiber optic connector housing engaging the outer stop surface before a front end of the alignment feature engages an internal portion of the backplane adapter,
wherein the alignment passageway has a different width on a top than on a bottom inside an opening in the main body for accepting the pair of fiber optic connectors.