Patent ID: 9250394
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G02B

Claim Text:
1. A connector for ribbon optical fiber cable comprising a plug and a receptacle, wherein, the plug is detachably connected to the receptacle through hooked tabs provided on both lateral sides of a front end of the plug, and a centering body, which allows first and second ribbon optical fiber cable portions of the plug and the receptacle, respectively, to be movably centered with each other inside the centering body, is provided at the front end of the plug; the plug comprises: a plug casing; and a first fiber fixation assembly and the centering body accommodated in the plug casing, where the centering body is provided with multiple centering channels; a centering body accommodating cavity for receiving the centering body is provided at a front end of the plug casing, and an opening facing the centering body is provided at a front end face of the plug casing; a first ribbon optical fiber cable is allowed to be inserted into the plug casing from a tail end of the plug casing and fixed by the first fiber fixation assembly, a sleeve of an end of the first ribbon optical fiber cable is stripped off to expose multiple first bare fibers, and each of the first bare fibers is inserted into a corresponding one of the centering channels; the receptacle includes a receptacle casing and a second fiber fixation assembly accommodated in the receptacle casing; a second ribbon optical fiber cable is allowed to be inserted into the receptacle casing from a tail end of the receptacle casing and fixed by the second fiber fixation assembly; a sleeve of an end of the second ribbon optical fiber cable is stripped off to expose multiple second bare fibers, and when the plug is inserted into the receptacle, each of the second bare fibers is inserted into a corresponding one of the centering channels, so that an end face of the first bare fiber abuts on that of the second bare fiber; the centering body is a ceramic body, the centering channels are through holes arranged in the ceramic body, and chamfers are provided at both ends of the through holes; the centering body includes a base with V-grooves and a cover plate with V-grooves for covering the base, multiple parallel V-shaped centering slots forming the centering channels are arranged on the base, and a chamfer is arranged on at least one end of the V-shaped centering slot.