Patent ID: 6652157
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A plug connector for an optical waveguide (5), which has a sheathed, light-conducting core (1) and an outer cladding (3) which surrounds a core sheathing (2), having a plug part (6), is plugable together with a mating plug part (7), the plug part (6) forming a tube (8) for insertion of the core (1), which is severable flush with the tube end (9), and the mating plug part (7) forming a shaft (10) for insertion of the tube (8), which shaft (10) at a foot side is directed toward a transmitting/receiving element (11), wherein the plug part (6) is of two-part configuration, having a retaining part (12), which includes the tube (8) and holding means (13, 14) for the core sheathing (2) and also the outer cladding (3), and a cap part (15), which is clipable in a watertight manner to the retaining part (12) and has a passage opening for the optical waveguide (5).