US 11,675,138 B2
Ingress protected, outdoor rated adapter and method of assembly to an outdoor connector
Kazuyoshi Takano, Tokyo (JP); and Jeffrey Gniadek, Oxford, ME (US)
Assigned to Senko Advanced Components, Inc., Hudson, MA (US)
Filed by Senko Advanced Components, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed on Nov. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/536,014.
Application 17/536,014 is a continuation of application No. 16/271,012, filed on Feb. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,209,599.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/694,114, filed on Jul. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0082762 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G02B 6/38 (2006.01); G02B 6/40 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/3825 (2013.01) [G02B 6/3888 (2021.05); G02B 6/3894 (2013.01); G02B 6/406 (2013.01); G02B 6/3849 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ingress protected outdoor rated adapter comprising:
an adapter body having a first end and a second end spaced apart from the first end along an axis, the first end being in front of the second end along the axis, the adapter body configured to receive a cable such that the cable enters the adapter body through the second end, the adapter body having an opening through the first end;
a coupling member coupled to the adapter body at the second end and be configured to form an environmental seal at the second end about the cable;
a fiber optic adapter positioned within the adapter body and retained by the adapter body such that relative rotation between the fiber optic adapter and the adapter body is inhibited, the fiber optic adapter having a first end and a second end spaced apart from the first end along the axis, the first end of the fiber optic adapter defining at least one receptacle with an open end exposed through the opening through the first end of the adapter body, the fiber optic adapter configured to accept an internal fiber optic connector of a mating outdoor rated connector as a plug into the receptacle, the second end of the fiber optic adapter configured to receive at least one optical fiber from the cable secured at the second end of the adapter body, the fiber optic adapter configured the align the internal fiber optic connector accepted in the at least one receptacle with the optical fiber from the cable such that an optical connection is made between the internal fiber optic connector and the at least one optical fiber from the cable;
and wherein the adapter body is configured to mate with the outdoor rated connector at the first end whereby the ingress protected outdoor rated adapter mates the internal fiber optic connector of the outdoor rated connector with the receptacle of the fiber optic adapter;
wherein the adapter body comprises a locking groove adjacent the first end configured to facilitate rotational coupling of the ingress protected outdoor rated adapter to the outdoor rated connector.