Patent ID: 7507031

Claim:
An optical connector component comprising: a ferrule including a capillary and a flange holding a rear end of the capillary; and a short-length optical fiber, attached to the ferrule, having a bare optical fiber portion formed on a tip end of the short-length optical fiber and a splice portion formed on a rear end of the short-length optical fiber to be fusion-spliced to a tip end of an optical fiber, any coating around the bare optical fiber portion being removed, wherein the capillary comprises a minute through hole and a coated-portion storage hole formed from a tip end to the rear end in the capillary, the minute through hole storing therein the bare optical fiber portion of the short-length optical fiber and the coated-portion storage hole storing therein a part of a coated optical fiber portion of the short-length optical fiber continuous to the bare optical fiber portion, the flange including an end wall immediately adjacent to the rear end of the capillary and having no extension extending rearward from the end wall, a peripheral wall extending from the end wall and circumferentially around the rear end of the capillary, and a coated-portion penetrating hole formed in the end wall to be penetrated therein a very short portion continuous to the part of the coated optical fiber portion stored in the coated-portion storage hole, and the short-length optical fiber extending rearward from the coated-portion penetrating hole of the flange and becoming exposed to an extra length required for the splice portion when the bare optical fiber portion is fixedly stored in the minute through hole of the capillary and the part of the coated optical fiber portion continuous to the bare optical fiber portion is fixedly stored in the coated-portion storage hole of the capillary.