Patent ID: 6227719
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A plastic optical fiber connector for receiving and holding at least one pair of plug connectors wherein each plug connector of the pair is connected to a dual-core plastic optical fiber cable having two separate plastic optical fiber bodies extending parallel to one another and spaced from one another by a fixed distance d with each of the fiber bodies being covered by a sheath, said plastic optical fiber connector comprising an adaptor which is provided with at least one connector receptacle open at two opposite ends and capable of receiving the two plug connectors of said one pair inserted respectively into said two opposite ends of the connector receptacle, so that the end faces of the two fiber bodies of the cable held by one of the plug connectors become opposed respectively to the end faces of the two fiber bodies of the cable held by the other plug connector of the pair, each of said plug connectors having a hollow housing open at one end to receive a portion of the associated cable with the sheaths unremoved from the fiber bodies, and each of said plug connectors having a ferrule at an end opposite to said open end which ferrule has two through holes for receiving end portions of the fiber bodies of the associated cable from which end portions the sheaths have been removed, said ferrule holes being spaced from one another by said distance d and being of such diameter that, in assembling the associated cable to the plug connector, the unsheathed end portions of the cable can be easily pushed into the holes with the holes thereafter holding the end portions at said distance d from one another.