US 11,940,657 B2
Single port blindmate for fiber optic connectors
Hiep V. Nguyen, Fort Mill, SC (US); Jason Higley, Hickory, NC (US); Darrell R. Childers, Hickory, NC (US); and Michael E. Hughes, Hickory, NC (US)
Assigned to US Conec Ltd., Hickory, NC (US)
Filed by US Conec Ltd., Hickory, NC (US)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/898,252.
Application 17/898,252 is a division of application No. 16/773,010, filed on Jan. 27, 2020, granted, now 11,428,875.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/796,960, filed on Jan. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0413231 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 6/38 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/3897 (2013.01) [G02B 6/3825 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A backplane adapter for a pair of fiber optic connectors, each of the pair of fiber optic connectors having a fiber optic connector housing, the backplane adapter comprising:
a main body with an outer stop surface configured to engage a stop portion of a fiber optic connector housing, the main body being rectangular and having a top and a bottom separated by two opposite side walls to define an opening in the main body for accepting the pair of fiber optic connectors; and
an alignment passageway within the main body of the backplane adapter to receive an alignment feature on the fiber optic connector housing, the alignment passageway having a length that is longer than a length of the alignment feature, the stop portion of the fiber optic connector housing engaging the outer stop surface before a front end of the alignment feature engages an internal portion of the backplane adapter,
wherein the alignment passageway has a different width on the top than on the bottom inside the opening.