Patent ID: 6923578

Claim:
An optical fiber connector that includes a housing having a plurality of passages that each have an axis, and a plurality of optical fiber terminus assemblies that each includes a terminus lying in one of said passages and comprising a body and a ferrule, and an optical fiber cable with a front stripped portion extending through the terminus, wherein: said housing includes outer and inner housing parts, said outer housing part comprising a shell with a blocking wall that separates the inside of the shell into front and rear cavities; said inner housing part having at least a front portion that is forwardly slideable into said rear cavity, said inner housing part having a plurality of inner housing bores; an indexing plate that lies trapped in said shell rear cavity between a front end of said inner housing part and said blocking wall, said indexing plate having a plurality of indexing bores each aligned with one of said inner housing bores to form at least part of one of said passages; each of said indexing bores is noncircular and nonsymmetric about the corresponding passage axis; said terminus bodies each includes a front portion that fits closely into a cylindrical hole; and including a plurality of index sleeves that each has a bore that closely receives one of said body front portions at any relative rotational position about said axis, and each of said index sleeves being fixed to one of said body front portions; each of said index sleeves has a noncircular outside surface that fits closely into one of said indexing bores at only one rotational position of the index sleeve about the passage axis.