US 10,788,625 B2 · Portable device for attaching a connector to an optical fiber

Portable device for attaching a connector to an optical fiber

AssigneesCommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA, CommScope Technologies LLC

InventorsDanny Willy August Verheyden, David Donald Erdman, Michael Gurreri, Randall Bobby Paul, Jan Watté, Robert Charles Flaig, Alan Edward Plotts, Michael Aaron Kadar-Kallen, Shelly Ann Buchter, Jan Vandenbroeck, Patrick Billet, Stefano Beri, André Johannes Maria Hilderink, Hernes Jacobs, Petrus Theodorus Rutgers, Petrus Theodorus Krechting, Martijn Johannes Wolbers, Walter Mattheus, Cristian-Radu Radulescu, Paul Vits, Karel Johannes Van Assenbergh, Pieter Cornelis Johan De Jager, Henk Jan Theodoor Van Der Pol

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Abstract

A portable device for attaching a connector to an optical fiber, the optical fiber having an end, the device comprising means for receiving the optical fiber at the end of the optical fiber; and a connector station for autonomously attaching the connector to the optical fiber.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A method for evacuating debris from an optical fiber, the method comprising the steps of:

covering the optical fiber with a tape;
trapping the debris between the tape by folding the tape along its longitudinal axis to form a tape sandwich;
and
driving the tape, thus evacuating the tape sandwich.

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Facts

Application

16/172,050Filed 26 Oct 2018 · continuation

Priority

EP 1117437618 Jul 2011

Published

US 2019/0129102 A12 May 2019

Granted

29 Sep 2020

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Classification22 codes

G02B 6/245
Coupling light guides: removing protective coverings of light guides before coupling
G02B 6/3825
Of the ferrule type, e.g. fibre ends embedded in ferrules, connecting a pair of fibres: with an intermediate part, e.g. adapter, receptacle,…
B29C 65/72
Joining or sealing of preformed parts , e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor: by combined operations or combined techniques,…
B29C 66/90
General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts: measuring or controlling the joining process

Family

Application61/443,942Us provisional application · filed 17 Feb 2011

Application61/443,933Us provisional application · filed 17 Feb 2011

Application61/544,880Us provisional application · filed 7 Oct 2011

PCT/US2012/024189Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Feb 2012

Application15/338,003Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Oct 2016

US 9,481,129 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 1 Nov 2016

US 2019/0129102 A1Pre-grant publication · published 2 May 2019

US 10,114,178 B2Parent of this continuation

Application14/000,345Parent of this continuation

US 2014/0124140 A1Published application

US 2017/0146749 A1Published application

US 10,788,625 B2This patent

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