Fiber inspection tool with manual adjustment
OwnerKevin B. Larkininventor
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The purpose of this continuation is to increase the viewing magnification of the already issued patent U.S. Pat. No. 11,385,412 B2. By the addition of a module housing that has the capability of allowing for additional magnification, lighting and focusing capabilities. A module housing case is described. The modular housing case includes a fiber optic component housing defined as a cavity and or cavities that are sized to receive a fiber optic connector and or connectors. Within the cavity or cavities is a ferrule guide or ferrule guides. The module housing case also has an internal cavity that is at least partially enclosed. Components to assist in magnification may be disposed at least partially or fully within the internal cavity. Those components can range from a lighting system powered by internal electronics or a system that relies on the cell phone camera flash and or flashlight LED for internal fiber end face lighting. Finally, the module housing case employs a camera lens alignment feature that can be adjusted manually to increase magnification of the field of view by the raising and or lowering of the module housing case.
A two-piece module housing configured for sliding onto or placing said module over a cell phone camera and/or cameras to allow for inspecting of fiber optic cable and or fiber optic connector cable glass or plastic end face and or end faces by means while holding a Fiber Optic connector and/or ferrule and/or fiber end face and/or end faces in place with a support component and/or equivalent to house a fiber jack cavity or jack cavities with the addition of a second mechanism that (1) rotates and/or (2) slides said module into a position of focusing fiber connector end faces that are temporarily housed in the fiber jack module cavity and/or jack cavities into a position of focusing and/or the field of view of said fiber end faces, said module housing further comprising:
A module base housing that mates and facilitates with and secures a receiving focusing mechanism while being semi-permanently and/or permanently connected to a partial or full cell phone cover and/or a laptop case and/or a desk top case, said module base housing comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.