Patent ID: 7128470
Filing Date: 2006-10-31
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A bipolar optical plug-and-socket connector for connecting two optical fibers with one or more other optical fibers, electro-optical transmission devices, or electro-optical receiving devices, the connector comprising: an optical housing for holding two fiber end sleeves in which each fiber end sleeve terminates an optical fiber; the optical housing having a first housing portion and a second housing portion which are releaseably separable and joinable to one another, the housing portions being of different types and having different external physical body forms from one another in order to enable the housing portions to be readily distinguishable from one another by a user when the housing portions are separated from one another and when the housing portions are joined to one another, the housing portions holding respective ones of the fiber end sleeves when the fiber end sleeves are inserted into the housing portions along a plugging direction, the housing portions being joined to one another in a direction inclined to the plugging direction to place the optical housing in a fully assembled position while the housing portions hold the fiber end sleeves; wherein each housing portion includes a housing portion lock, the housing portion locks being separate from one another, wherein the housing portion lock of each housing portion radially inserts into the other housing portion in order to lock the fiber end sleeve held in the other housing portion when the housing portions have been joined together.