Abstract: An optical connector comprising a housing and a channel in this housing to receive an optical cable therein is preferably mounted in an optical contact having several parts, including a front part constituted by a connection ferrule and a sleeve used to prevent the rotation of the optical fiber inside the channel. The retention of the optical contact inside the channel is provided by a catch which has, for example, a bayonet mounted around the optical fiber that co-operates with a recess of an inner wall of the channel. A spring is positioned around the optical fiber to hold the bayonet in a return of the recess.

Abstract: An optical connector comprising a housing and a channel in this housing to receive an optical cable therein is preferably mounted in an optical contact having several parts, including a front part constituted by a connection ferrule and a sleeve used to prevent the rotation of the optical fiber inside the channel. The retention of the optical contact inside the channel is provided by a catch which has, for example, a bayonet mounted around the optical fiber that co-operates with a recess of an inner wall of the channel. A spring is positioned around the optical fiber to hold the bayonet in a return of the recess.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber-optic connector (1) comprising a socket (2) and a plug (4) which are intended to be mated in order to join two optical cables. The connector according to the invention includes at least two sealing members, one of them being an interfacial sealing member (12) put under compression when the plug (4) and the socket (2) are being mated.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulating housing having a transversal partition formed with mutually parallel passages for receiving electrical terminals, and a retention plate insertable into the housing up to a front position in which it is retained against the partition. The plate is formed with terminal-receiving holes distributed in the same array as the passages. They extend forwardly as resilient fingers adapted for snap-fastening connection with the terminals. The fingers are adapted to the shape of the passages so that they can penetrate into a passage and be retained therein in the position where they hold the terminals when the retention plate is in its front position. Each hole is formed with a rearwardly-directed shoulder for abutment with a corresponding step on the respective terminal. The abutment shoulder is placed so as to stop the terminal in the position where the fingers are snapped onto them.