公开(公告)号：WO2011014264A1

公开(公告)日：2011-02-03

申请号：PCT/US2010/023024

申请日：2010-02-03

Applicant: GLENAIR, INC. ,  ARMANI, Deniz, K. ,  DOSHI, Monish, J. ,  NOLL, Gregory, B. ,  SMITH, Jonathon, M.

Inventor： ARMANI, Deniz, K. ,  DOSHI, Monish, J. ,  NOLL, Gregory, B. ,  SMITH, Jonathon, M.

IPC: G02B6/26

CPC classification number: G02B6/3845 ,  B01L3/502715 ,  B01L3/502753 ,  B01L3/5029 ,  B01L3/50825 ,  B01L7/52 ,  B01L2200/027 ,  B01L2200/16 ,  B01L2300/0816 ,  B01L2300/0867 ,  B01L2300/087 ,  B01L2300/0887 ,  B01L2400/0487 ,  G02B6/3821 ,  G02B6/3825 ,  G02B6/3853 ,  G02B6/3878 ,  G02B6/3887

Abstract: An expanded beam fiber optic connection system is disclosed which overcomes the problems associated with known expanded beam fiber optic connection systems The expanded beam fiber optic connection system includes a pair of mating fiber optic connectors Each fiber optic connector includes a connector body and fiber optic termini In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the fiber optic termini utilize expanded beam technology and are configured with virtually the same form factor as existing physical contact fiber optic termini The configuration of the expanded beam termini provides several benefits First, existing physical contact fiber optic connection systems can be updated in the field by simply replacing the existing physical contact fiber optic termini with the new expanded beam fiber optic termini and re-using the existing connector body, thus reducing the cost of upgrading existing physical contact type fiber optic connection systems and the number of components necessary.

Abstract translation: 公开了一种扩展光束光纤连接系统，其克服了与已知的扩展光束光纤连接系统相关的问题。扩展光束光纤连接系统包括一对配对的光纤连接器。每个光纤连接器包括连接器主体和光纤终端 根据本发明的重要方面，光纤终端利用扩展光束技术并且被配置为与现有物理接触光纤终端几乎相同的形状因子扩展光束终端的配置提供若干优点首先，现有的物理接触光纤 可以通过简单地用现有的物理接触光纤终端替换现有的物理接触光纤终端并重新使用现有的连接器主体来在现场更新连接系统，从而降低升级现有物理接触型光纤连接系统的成本， 组件数量n 具完整。