US 12,265,269 B2
Fiber optic connectors and connectorized cable assembly with sealing components
Dana Craig Bookbinder, Corning, NY (US); Michael De Jong, Colleyville, TX (US); Konrad Jan Koziel, Lodz (PL); Claudio Mazzali, Painted Post, NY (US); Pushkar Tandon, Painted Post, NY (US); and Ruchi Sarda Tandon, Painted Post, NY (US)
Assigned to CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Corning, NY (US)
Filed by Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US)
Filed on May 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/330,152.
Application 17/330,152 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2019/057754, filed on Oct. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/772,568, filed on Nov. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0278602 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 6/38 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/3888 (2021.05) [G02B 6/3849 (2013.01); G02B 6/3869 (2013.01); G02B 6/38875 (2021.05)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fiber optic connector, comprising:
a connector body comprising a ferrule retaining portion, a pusher engagement portion, and a body cable passage extending from a cable entry end of the connector body to the ferrule retaining portion of the connector body along a longitudinal axis extending through the pusher engagement portion of the connector body and the ferrule retaining portion of the connector body;
a ferrule assembly comprising an optical fiber bore, wherein the ferrule assembly is structurally configured to be retained by the ferrule retaining portion of the connector body with the optical fiber bore of the ferrule assembly in alignment with, or offset from and aligned with, the longitudinal axis of the connector body;
a pusher comprising a pusher cable passage, wherein the pusher is structurally configured to axially engage the pusher engagement portion of the connector body with the pusher cable passage in alignment with the body cable passage of the connector body;
at least one gasket located between the cable entry end of the connector body and the pusher, wherein the gasket comprises a gasket cable passage shaped to accommodate and receive a fiber optic cable, the gasket cable passage having two distinct strength member passageways arranged to approximate an elliptic Booth lemniscate; and
at least one seal component comprising a superabsorbent material.