Patent ID: 6942372

Claim:
A heat dissipating turret for operably engaging a fiberoptic cable to a fiberoptic illuminator housing, which illuminator housing includes a light output opening, said turret comprising; a first turret component composed of a heat conducting metallic material and having a first light conducting channel formed therethrough, and a second turret component composed of a heat insulating, non-metallic material and including a second light conducting channel formed therethrough, said first and second turret components being interengaged and said first turret component being attachable to the illuminator housing such that said first light conducting channel communicates with the light output opening of the illumination housing and said first and second light conducting channels communicate to transmit light from the illuminator housing through said light conducting channels; said second turret having an outlet post communicating with said second light conducting channel and being releasably interengagable by an input fitting of the fiberoptic cable, whereby light is transmittable from the illuminator through the interengaged turret components to an interengaged fiberoptic cable.