CN212483924U

CN212483924U - Integrated ceramic ferrule and optical fiber socket

Info

Publication number: CN212483924U
Application number: CN202021724832.5U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 金建峰; 余艳梅
Original assignee: Oece Communication Co ltd
Current assignee: Oece Communication Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-08-18
Filing date: 2020-08-18
Publication date: 2021-02-05
Anticipated expiration: 2030-08-18

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of optical fiber communication, in particular to an integrated ceramic ferrule and an optical fiber socket, wherein the integrated ceramic ferrule comprises an inner hole, the front section of the inner hole is an optical fiber channel for fixing optical fibers, and the tail end of the optical fiber channel is provided with an optical fiber penetrating guide section; the inner hole rear section is a buffer layer protection channel and used for fixing an optical fiber buffer protection layer, an anti-rotation structure is arranged on the outer edge structure of the ceramic ferrule rear section, and the rear part of the anti-rotation structure is a spring support section. The integrated ceramic ferrule and optical fiber socket provided by the utility model has the advantages that the structure of the optical fiber connector is more compact through the combination of the ceramic ferrule part and the metal tail handle part and the reasonable structural design of the optical fiber connector; therefore, the density of the existing optical fiber connector is doubled, and the optical fiber connector is prepared for the next step of the optical module to the specification of 800G and above.

Description

Integrated ceramic ferrule and optical fiber socket

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an optical fiber communication technology field, concretely relates to integral type pottery lock pin and optical fiber socket.

Background

With the increasing requirement on data bandwidth, the data center is evolving to 400G/800G, and higher requirements are also put on the miniaturization of the optical module size. Optical fiber connectors are also increasingly demanding in terms of density as connection products for mating with optical modules. Conventional LC connectors have slowly been phased out and replaced with CS, SN, MDC, smaller fiber optic connectors.

The size of the multi-core optical fiber connector taking the ceramic ferrule as the core is not only dependent on the optimized design of reasonably utilizing the space of the external structure, but also the most critical factor is the distance between the ceramic ferrules. As fiber optic connectors evolve toward miniaturization, new connectors are continually being introduced by connector manufacturers, with the pitch between ferrules also changing from 6.25mm for LC to 3.8mm for CS, and 3.1mm for SN.

In the prior art, as shown in FIG. 1, the ferrule is interference pressed into the metal stem to form a ferrule assembly. 125um optic fibre is fixed to the pottery lock pin hole, and metal caudal peduncle hole is used for fixed optic fibre buffer protection layer. The tail end is the taper hole structure behind the pottery lock pin, makes things convenient for the optic fibre to penetrate. The metal tail handle has certain thickness at the interference section of impressing to guarantee the cohesion of ceramic lock pin and metal tail handle, do not pulled off. The outer edge structure of the metal tail handle is hexagonal or other anti-rotation structures. The rear part of the anti-rotation section is a step section for supporting the spring.

The ceramic plug core assembly and the ceramic sleeve in the prior art are used as cores to design a double-core connector, a multi-core connector and an adapter, the structure limits the distance between the ceramic plug cores, the distance needs to be larger than the anti-rotation section of the metal tail handle, and the material wall thickness used for isolating the cores is the ceramic plug core distance of the existing double-core connector, so that the SN connector distance with the minimum size in the market is 3.1 mm.

If under the unchangeable condition of buffer protection layer passageway and fiber channel structure, reduce the regional internal diameter of back end of pottery lock pin outer fringe, then impress in the tail handle that compares that the tail handle size that prior art used is littleer to improve fiber connector's density, this structure requires highly to the intensity of back end pottery lock pin, and there is the segment difference in the linking of buffer protection passageway metal part and ceramic part, and the production degree of difficulty is higher and the risk that goes wrong is great.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model discloses an on prior art's basis, further improvement fiber connector's density, the design requirement of compatible adaptation module optical connection port is for on next step the optical module to 800G and above specification be prepared, provide an integral type pottery lock pin to improve present fiber connector's density one time.

In order to realize the purpose, the utility model discloses a technical scheme as follows:

an integrated ceramic ferrule comprises an inner hole, wherein the front section of the inner hole is an optical fiber channel and used for fixing an optical fiber, and the tail end of the optical fiber channel is provided with an optical fiber penetrating guide section; the inner hole rear section is a buffer layer protection channel and used for fixing an optical fiber buffer protection layer, an anti-rotation structure is arranged on the outer edge structure of the ceramic ferrule rear section, and the rear part of the anti-rotation structure is a spring support section.

Furthermore, a tail rubber area is reserved at the tail end of the buffer layer protection channel and used for enhancing the protection of the optical fiber.

The utility model discloses an on the other hand still provides an optical fiber socket, including fiber connector and optic fibre adapter, fiber connector includes tail pipe, spring and pushes away piece, spring, inner shell and shell, install above-mentioned integral type pottery lock pin on the spring.

Further, the number of the integrated ceramic ferrules is 2 or 4.

Further, the optical fiber connector and the optical fiber adapter are mutually embedded.

Furthermore, a spring pushing piece of the optical fiber connector is connected with the inner shell through a buckle, a guide groove for guiding the integrated ceramic ferrule is formed in the inner shell, and a shell spring groove is formed in the surface of the inner shell and corresponds to the guide groove.

Furthermore, the tail pipe of the optical fiber connector is connected with the outer shell through a buckle, a guiding inner rib is arranged in the outer shell, the inner shell is inserted into the outer shell through the guiding inner rib, a shell spring is further arranged in the outer shell, and the shell spring is limited by the outer shell and a shell spring groove and used for providing thrust when the outer shell returns.

Further, the optical fiber adapter comprises a shell, a clamping jaw, a ceramic sleeve and a sleeve fixing piece which are connected in sequence, the clamping jaw is detachably installed in the shell, the ceramic sleeve is installed in the clamping jaw, the clamping jaw and the sleeve fixing piece are fixed through a buckle, the ceramic sleeve is matched with the integrated ceramic ferrule.

Furthermore, be equipped with the guide way in the casing, fiber connector shell is equipped with guide part and setting element, prevents that the connector from squinting about in the casing, be equipped with on the fiber connector inner shell with jack catch matched with recess.

Furthermore, the light-emitting structure is connected to the other end of ceramic sleeve, be equipped with on the sleeve mounting and be used for fixing the fixed inserted sheet of light-emitting structure, the light-emitting structure also includes integral type pottery lock pin.

Beneficial effects of the utility model

The utility model provides an advantage of integral type pottery lock pin and optical fiber socket includes following several:

1. the ceramic ferrule part and the metal tail handle part are combined, the metal tail handle part is removed, the radial size and the width of a positioning surface are reduced, the process of pressing the ceramic ferrule into the metal tail handle is omitted, and the possibility of failure of the ceramic ferrule is avoided;

2. the core insert with the optimized inner hole is adopted, the buffer layer penetrates into the ceramic core insert, so that the fiber stripping point is protected in the ceramic core insert, the peripheral adhesive layers are uniform, the temperature variation stress is obviously reduced, and the fiber stripping point is far away from the tail end of the core insert and is not easily influenced by a lateral external force acting on the buffer layer;

3. the optical fiber connector has a more reasonable inner shell structure with higher strength, can provide better mechanical strength and more reliable product performance, and reduces the possibility of part failure in the manufacturing process;

4. the optical fiber connector has a more reasonable buckle structure matched with the adapter, and the push-pull tail pipe can be connected with the adapter and is released, so that the optical fiber connector is more convenient and the releasing force is smaller.

Drawings

Figure 1 schematically illustrates a prior art ferrule assembly;

FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a structural view of an integrated ferrule of the present invention;

fig. 3 schematically illustrates a structure of an optical fiber connector having an optical fiber socket with an integrated ferrule according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an optical fiber adapter having an optical fiber receptacle with an integrated ferrule according to the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating a housing structure of the optical fiber connector according to the present invention;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram illustrating a light exit structure connected to the optical fiber adapter according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical scheme adopted by the utility model is further explained by combining the attached drawings and the embodiment,

the utility model provides a pair of integral type pottery lock pin is shown in figure 2, moves the buffering protective layer passageway originally in the metal caudal peduncle to the pottery lock pin in to directly be equipped with on the pottery lock pin and prevent changeing and spring-supported structure.

The integrated ceramic ferrule inner hole front section is an optical fiber channel and used for fixing optical fibers, and the tail end of the optical fiber channel is provided with an optical fiber penetrating guide section.

The integral type pottery lock pin hole back end is buffer layer protection passageway for fixed optic fibre buffer protection layer. And a tail rubber region is reserved at the tail end for enhancing the protection of the optical fiber.

The integrated ceramic ferrule rear section outer edge structure is provided with an anti-rotation structure, and the anti-rotation section rear part is a spring support section for supporting a spring.

Use integral type pottery lock pin, got rid of the metal caudal peduncle, theoretical arrange the ascending interval size in the side at the permutation of two core connectors and multicore connector and can reach ceramic sleeve external diameter (ceramic sleeve external diameter generally is 1.62mm), nevertheless need be kept apart between each ceramic sleeve to the core component of connector butt joint needs certain clearance of floating at the adapter, so possess better preventing the side and draw the performance, so use the utility model discloses the interval size of the connector of integral type pottery lock pin is for 2.1 mm.

Use integral type pottery lock pin after, cooperate reasonable connector housing design, two core connector sizes have reduced 30% to can hold 4 cores under present two core housing sizes, improve connector density one time, for more miniaturized modular design, and data center wiring system provides powerful support.

Referring to fig. 3 and 4, a fiber optic receptacle incorporating the above-described integrated ferrule includes a fiber optic connector and a fiber optic adapter.

The optical fiber connector is shown in figure 3 and comprises a tail pipe, a spring pushing piece, a spring, an inner shell and an outer shell, wherein the spring is provided with 4 integrated ceramic ferrules, the spring pushing piece of the optical fiber connector is connected with the inner shell through a buckle, the tail pipe of the optical fiber connector is connected with the outer shell through a buckle, a guide inner rib is arranged in the outer shell, the inner shell is inserted into the outer shell through the guide inner rib, a guide groove for guiding the integrated ceramic ferrules is formed in the inner shell, a shell spring groove is formed in the surface of the inner shell and corresponds to the guide groove, a shell spring is further arranged in the outer shell, the shell spring is limited by the outer shell and the shell spring groove and used for providing thrust when the outer shell returns, and the inner diameter of the push-pull tail pipe is larger than the outer diameter of a cable.

The optical fiber adapter is as shown in fig. 4, including casing, jack catch, ceramic sleeve and the sleeve mounting that connects gradually, jack catch detachably installs in the casing, ceramic sleeve installs in the jack catch, jack catch and sleeve mounting pass through the buckle fixed ceramic sleeve, ceramic sleeve with integral type pottery lock pin cooperatees, be equipped with the guide way in the casing, the fiber connector shell is equipped with guide part and setting element, prevents that the connector from squinting about in the casing, be equipped with on the fiber connector inner shell with jack catch matched with recess.

The guide groove in the optical fiber adapter shell is matched with the optical fiber connector shell, so that the optical fiber connector is ensured to be smoothly inserted, and external force in the left and right directions is resisted after matching; when the connector shell is inserted into the adapter shell, the front section of the connector shell limits the clamping jaws in the adapter, so that external force cannot be transmitted to the ceramic sleeve and the insertion core; the positioning key is arranged on the shell of the optical fiber connector, so that the direction error when the optical fiber connector is inserted is prevented, and meanwhile, whether the optical fiber connector is inserted in place or not can be judged.

When the optical fiber connector needs to be connected with the optical fiber adapter, the clamping jaws are lifted by the inner shell and then prop against the outer shell, so that the outer shell retreats, the clamping jaws of the adapter enter the grooves of the inner shell after the outer shell retreats, and meanwhile, the outer shell returns under the pushing of the shell spring to completely lock the clamping jaws of the adapter and the inner shell.

When the optical fiber connector needs to be separated from the optical fiber adapter, the tail pipe drags the outer shell to the outside through the buckle, the outer shell of the optical fiber connector is dragged to move backwards by the tail pipe, the limit of outward deformation of the clamping jaw is released, the outer shell continues to move backwards, the inner shell is driven to move backwards through the stop position (shown in figure 5) on the guide rib in the outer shell, the inner shell is separated from the clamping jaw of the adapter after moving backwards, and the adapter is pulled out of the connector.

Referring to fig. 6, the other end of the ceramic sleeve of the adapter is connected with the light emitting structure, the sleeve fixing part is provided with a fixing insertion sheet for fixing the light emitting structure, the light emitting structure also comprises an integrated ceramic ferrule, and the integrated ceramic ferrules on two sides are connected in the ceramic sleeve.

The above, only for the concrete implementation of this utility model, but the scope of protection of this utility model is not limited to this, and any person skilled in this technical field is in the technical scope of this utility model discloses, according to the technical scheme of this utility model and novel design add in equal replacement or change, all should be covered in the scope of protection of this utility model.

Claims

1. An integrated ceramic ferrule is characterized by comprising an inner hole, wherein the front section of the inner hole is an optical fiber channel used for fixing an optical fiber, and the tail end of the optical fiber channel is provided with an optical fiber penetrating guide section; the inner hole rear section is a buffer layer protection channel and used for fixing an optical fiber buffer protection layer, an anti-rotation structure is arranged on the outer edge structure of the ceramic ferrule rear section, and the rear part of the anti-rotation structure is a spring support section.

2. The one-piece ferrule of claim 1, wherein said buffer protection channel ends are left with a tail section for enhanced fiber protection.

3. An optical fiber socket comprising an optical fiber connector and an optical fiber adapter, wherein the optical fiber connector comprises a tail tube, a spring pusher, a spring, an inner shell and an outer shell, and the spring is provided with the integrated ferrule of claim 1 or 2.

4. The fiber optic receptacle of claim 3, wherein the number of integral ferrules is 2 or 4.

5. The fiber optic receptacle of claim 4, wherein the fiber optic connector and the fiber optic adapter are interfitted.

6. The optical fiber socket according to claim 5, wherein the spring pushing member of the optical fiber connector is connected to the inner housing by a snap fit, a guiding groove for guiding the integrated ferrule is formed inside the inner housing, and a housing spring groove is formed on the surface of the inner housing corresponding to the guiding groove.

7. The optical fiber socket according to claim 6, wherein the tail tube of the optical fiber connector is connected to the outer shell by a snap, an inner guiding rib is disposed in the outer shell, the inner shell is inserted into the outer shell through the inner guiding rib, and a shell spring is further disposed in the outer shell, and is retained by the outer shell and the shell spring groove, so as to provide a pushing force when the outer shell is returned to the original position.

8. The optical fiber socket according to claim 7, wherein the optical fiber adapter comprises a housing, a claw, a ceramic sleeve and a sleeve fixing member, which are connected in sequence, wherein the claw is detachably installed in the housing, the ceramic sleeve is installed in the claw, the claw and the sleeve fixing member fix the ceramic sleeve by a snap, and the ceramic sleeve is matched with the integrated ceramic ferrule.

9. The optical fiber jack of claim 8, wherein the housing has a guiding groove therein, the outer shell of the optical fiber connector has a guiding portion and a positioning member for preventing the connector from shifting left and right in the housing, and the inner shell of the optical fiber connector has a groove for engaging with the latch.

10. The optical fiber socket according to claim 9, wherein the other end of the ferrule is connected to a light exit structure, the ferrule holder is provided with a fixing insert for fixing the light exit structure, and the light exit structure also includes an integrated ferrule.