Patent ID: 9239435
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. An optical fiber cable having an optical connector, comprising: the optical connector assembled on a tip portion of the optical fiber cable, the optical fiber cable being configured to collectively cover a coated-optical fiber and tensile strength bodies with a jacket, the coated-optical fiber being configured to cover an outer circumferential surface of a bare optical fiber with a coating, the tensile strength bodies extending in parallel with both sides of the coated-optical fiber, the jacket being made of a synthetic resin; a protruding portion of the bare optical fiber protruding from a terminal of the jacket being configured to be inserted into a ferrule of the optical connector to a splice end surface of the ferrule and fixed, the optical fiber cable being configured so that the tensile strength bodies do not protrude from the terminal of the jacket; and a reinforced portion formed in the optical connector as a result of heating and shrinking a heat-shrinkable tube and solidifying a hot-melt adhesive of an inner portion of the heat-shrinkable tube after melting the hot-melt adhesive so as to integrate a rear end portion of the ferrule, a jacket-tip portion including the terminal of the jacket which is disposed at a rear side of the ferrule so as to be separated therefrom, and the heat-shrinkable tube which accommodates the rear end portion of the ferrule and the jacket-tip portion and in which the hot-melt adhesive is disposed in the inner portion of the heat-shrinkable tube, the heat-shrinkable tube including tensile strength fibers which are different from the tensile strength bodies of the optical fiber cable, the tensile strength fibers being embedded in the heat-shrinkable tube or disposed inside the heat-shrinkable tube, the tensile strength fibers being substantially equally disposed in a plurality of locations in a circumferential direction of the heat-shrinkable tube, the tensile strength fibers extending along an axis line direction of the heat-shrinkable tube.