US 11,698,504 B2
Optical connector cable and method for manufacturing optical connector cable
Taisuke Nagasaki, Osaka (JP); and Toshihisa Yokochi, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Oct. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/495,896.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-185924 (JP), filed on Nov. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0146774 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G02B 6/44 (2006.01); H01B 11/22 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/4486 (2013.01) [H01B 11/22 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical connector cable comprising:
an optical cable that includes a plurality of optical fibers and a sheath surrounding the plurality of optical fibers, wherein end portions of the plurality of optical fibers extend to outside of an end surface of the sheath;
a first resin member that holds the end portions of the plurality of optical fibers extending to outside of the end surface of the sheath; and
a second resin member that covers at least a part of the first resin member and an end portion of the sheath, wherein
the first resin member includes a first tube surrounding the end portions of the plurality of optical fibers extending to outside of the end surface of the sheath,
an end surface of the first tube contacts with the end surface of the sheath, and
the second resin member includes a second tube surrounding a contact part between the end surface of the first tube and the end surface of the sheath.