FIBER OPTIC CONNECTOR

Abstract: a crimp body for a connector defines a front end, a rear end, a top wall, a bottom wall, a side slot on each of a right side and a left side for receiving an optical fiber, wherein the side slot on each of the right side and the left side extends all the way from the front end to the rear end and is configured for receiving the optical fiber laterally generally perpendicular to a central axis defined by the crimp body, the crimp body including a rear projection defining the rear end of the crimp body, the rear projection configured to be captured by a crimp sleeve to be placed over the rear projection, wherein the portion of the side slot on each of the right and left sides that extends along the rear projection defines a maximum dimension in a direction from the top wall toward the bottom wall, wherein the portion of the side slot that extends along the rear projection is at least partially closed so as to reduce the size of the maximum dimension defined by the side slot that extends along the rear projection.

Inventor(s): Connor Thomas WILSON, Steven Conrad ZIMMEL, Aaron B. DANNEN, Laurens Izaäk VAN WUIJCKHUIJSE, Scott E. EISCHENS

CPC Classification: G02B6/3857 (OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS)

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