Patent ID: 7513693

Claim:
A fiber optical connector release mechanism in combination with a transceiver module housed in a cage assembly, comprising: a transceiver module which is a housing disposed with relevant circuits and a pair of LC plugs mounted at the two front openings and whose two sidewalls are disposed with a slide path, respectively, which is protruded to form at least an engage protrusion; a handle whose bottom is connected through a connection plate to a pair of arms extending rearward which are formed to have engage slots corresponding to the engage protrusions, to have a pair of longitudinal guiding slots at the front end, and to have flexible wedge elements at the rear end, wherein the wedge elements are positioned at the protruded segments at the end of the slide paths; a bail whose two sidewalls are pivotally connected to the front of the two sidewalls of the housing and which is protrudingly disposed with a pair of guiding tenons to be received in their respective guiding slots; a cage assembly whose front is disposed with an opening and two sidewalls are disposed with a flexible locking tab corresponding to the wedge elements; such that, when at the locked state, the engage slot on the arm is retained at the engage protrusion at the slide path to render the bail at the locked position; and further, when the bail is rotated such that the guiding tenons drive the guiding slots to move the arms forward and the wedge elements and the engage slots released from the snap engagement of the locking tabs and engage protrusions due to the forward motion of the arms, such that the transceiver module is free to be pulled out of the cage assembly.