Patent ID: 6913402
Filing Date: 2005-07-05
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A device mountable to a bulkhead, the device comprising: a sleeve having a seating surface, an aperture, and a thread form, and wherein the aperture has a first end and a second end; an insert body having a ferrule receiving bore, the insert body mounted in the aperture of the sleeve; a ferrule positioned in the ferrule receiving bore of the insert body, the ferrule having a first end and a second end, and the first end of the ferrule being in optical communication with the second end of the ferrule; a lens mounted in the ferrule receiving bore adjacent to the first end of the ferrule, the lens being in optical communication with the first end of the ferrule, and wherein the lens is positioned near the first end of the aperture of the sleeve; an optical subassembly in optical communication with the second end of the ferrule so that the lens is in optical communication with the optical subassembly; an electrical connector; a substrate attached to the optical subassembly and to the electrical connector, the substrate having electrical signal conditioning components mounted thereon, the electrical signal conditioning components electrically connect the optical subassembly to the electrical connector, and wherein the substrate is mounted in the aperture of the sleeve; a cover mountable on the sleeve so as to substantially cover the second end of the aperture of the sleeve, and so as to reduce electromagnetic radiation from emanating from the second end of the aperture of the sleeve, and wherein the electrical connector projects through the cover; and a panel nut having a thread form, and a seating surface, and wherein the thread form of the panel nut is complementary to the thread form of the sleeve so that the panel nut is removeably mountable on the sleeve, and wherein, in a mounted position of the device, the thread form of the panel nut fully engages the thread form of the sleeve so that the seating surface of the panel nut contacts a first surface of the bulkhead and the seating surface of the sleeve contacts a second surface of the bulkhead so that the device is securely mounted to the bulkhead.