US 12,111,503 B2
Fiber optic connector
Hsien-Hsin Hsu, Kaohsiung (TW); Yen-Chang Lee, Kaohsiung (TW); and Ke Xue Ning, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Gloriole Electroptic Technology Corp., Kaohsiung (TW); and Shen Zhen Wonderwin Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by Gloriole Electroptic Technology Corp., Kaohsiung (TW); and Shen Zhen Wonderwin Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Apr. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/725,194.
Claims priority of application No. 110212697 (TW), filed on Oct. 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0139646 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 6/38 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/38875 (2021.05) [G02B 6/3831 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fiber optic connector comprising:
a connector head module;
a mounting seat mounted to a rear end of said connector head module, and including a seat body portion, and an external threaded portion that protrudes from said seat body portion;
a rear boot connected to a rear end of said seat body portion;
an engaging module removably coupled to said connector head module; and
a sheath member including a sheath portion and an internal threaded portion that is formed in an inner surface of said sheath member;
wherein, when said engaging module is removed from said connector head module, said sheath member is attachable to said mounting seat with said sheath portion being sleeved on said connector head module and with said internal threaded portion being threadedly engaged with said external threaded portion of said mounting seat;
wherein said engaging module includes a support member that is removably engaged to said connector head module, and a press member that is removably engaged to said connector head module and that is located rearwardly of said support member, said support member having a support portion that extends rearwardly and upwardly, said press member having an operating portion that extends forwardly and upwardly to a position over said support member, said support member supporting said press member when said press member is pressed; and
wherein said connector head module includes a shell body portion that is formed with a neck groove, said support member of said engaging module further having an external frame portion that is removably disposed in said neck groove and that has opposite lateral ends, and a plurality of latch portions that protrude respectively from said opposite lateral ends of said external frame portion toward each other and that are removably disposed under said shell body portion, said support portion extending rearwardly and upwardly from said external frame portion to a position under said press member.