Patent ID: 7086785

Claim:
A self-contained fiber optic cartridge which includes a frame having a through passage, a coil spring lying in said passage and having a rear end abutting said frame, a terminus which includes a body that extends through said spring and that has a shoulder that abuts a front end of said spring and that has bore walls that form a through bore, said terminus also including a ferrule at a front end of the body, and including a fiber optic cable that extends through said bore in said body and through said ferrule, wherein: said frame has a rearwardly-facing shoulder lying rearward of said spring; said body has a rear part with a rear edge and a plurality of slots extending into said rear edge to form a plurality of fingers, said fingers having outwardly-projecting flanges at their rear ends that form forwardly-facing shoulders that abut said frame rearwardly-facing shoulder; and including a quantity of bonding material that bonds said cable to the walls of said body bore, said quantity of bonding material having a rear end that lies forward of said fingers, to thereby enable the cable to be bonded in the body bore and thereafter allow the body to be inserted rearward into the frame passage and then cause the body to hold itself against forward movement out of the frame.