Patent ID: 8066436
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A male contact for optical fiber comprising an outer body of an elastically deformable material, a cylindrical guide having a front portion attached to the rear portion of said outer body, and a rear portion protruding from said rear portion of said outer body, a cable adapter extending through said cylindrical guide, an elongated floating ferrule equipped with a fiber segment, said ferrule extending through the front portion of said outer body and being connected to a tubular ferrule holder movably mounted in said outer body and having abutment means suitable for bearing on first shoulders positioned between the front and rear portions of said outer body, and a helical spring provided between the front portion of said cylindrical guide and said abutment means of the ferrule holder pushing said abutment means of the ferrule holder against the first shoulders of said outer body, wherein the cylindrical guide comprises a first cylindrical body provided with abutment means suitable for engaging with second shoulders of said outer body situated between said first shoulders and the rear portion of said outer body and an annular shoulder bearing against the edge of the rear portion of said outer body, that said first cylindrical body comprises an inner shoulder, that the cable adapter is mounted to slide inside said first body, that the cable adapter is provided with an annular shoulder situated downstream of the front portion of the first cylindrical body providing a housing therein for a helical spring bearing on said annular shoulder of the cable adapter and on the inner shoulder of the first cylindrical body pushing the cable adapter toward the rear end of the ferrule and that said cable adapter is provided on its part located outside the first cylindrical body with a removable abutment bearing against the edge of the rear portion of the cylindrical guide keeping said helical spring situated inside the first cylindrical body compressed and allowing the cable adapter to float inside said cylindrical guide after said removable abutment is removed.