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LEMO 00 coaxial connectors on RG316 cable, below a BNC to LEMO adapter, a male-to-male adapter barrel and a 50 ohm terminator (topmost).LEMO is both the name of an electronic and fibre optic connector manufacturer, based in Switzerland, and the name commonly used to refer to push-pull connectors made by that company, which are used in medical, industrial, audio/visual, telecommunications, military, scientific research and measurement applications. The company took its name from the company founder, engineer Léon Mouttet, originally a manufacturer of contacts in noble and rare metals. The best known LEMO connectors are high quality push-pull circular types.
LEMO has set several connector standards. The 3K.93C connector has been adopted by the American (SMPTE 304M), Japanese (ARIB BTAS-1005B) and European (EBU R100-1999) standards organisations for HDTV fibre links for the broadcast market. The LEMO 00, a miniature push-pull 50Ω coaxial connector, is used in the Nuclear Instrumentation Module (NIM) and Computer Automated Measurement and Control (CAMAC) standards used in instrumentation for nuclear and particle physics, where it is used as a replacement for BNC connectors in high density designs.
While LEMO connectors were generally developed as proprietary designs, the legal status of many of the older designs is not clear. For example, the LEMO website itself shows a standardisation date of 1970 for the LEMO 00 model. Any patent on that design would therefore have expired around 2000 or earlier, depending on the filing date and jurisdiction.