US 11,982,847 B2
Flexible push-pull boot with a transition member
Mitchell Cloud, Hickory, NC (US); and Shubhrangshu Sengupta, Hickory, NC (US)
Assigned to US Conec Ltd., Hickory, NC (US)
Filed by US Conec, Ltd, Hickory, NC (US)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/570,846.
Application 17/570,846 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/126,493, filed on Dec. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,474,308.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/234,617, filed on Aug. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0196927 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 6/38 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/3893 (2013.01) [G02B 6/3821 (2013.01); G02B 6/3825 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A push-pull boot for an MPO fiber optic connector, the MPO fiber optic connector having an outer housing, the push-pull boot comprising:
a rear portion;
a middle portion;
a transition portion between the middle portion and the rear portion;
at least two front extensions extending forwardly from the middle portion and away from the transition portion; and
at least one cross bar between the at least two front extensions, the push-pull boot having a rear facing surface on the at least one cross bar to engage the outer housing of the MPO fiber optic connector, wherein the push-pull boot has a longitudinal axis and is flexible in a direction away from the longitudinal axis between an end of the rear portion to the transition portion and is not flexible in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis.