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US 2006/0233500 A1Published application
Optical fiber connecting device
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsTakaya Yamauchi, Akihiko Yazaki
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Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsTakaya Yamauchi, Akihiko Yazaki
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An optical fiber connecting device has a pair of holding elements which are formed on an actuating member and are capable of undergoing elastic deformation as a sheath holding mechanism for securing, to a body, the sheath portions S of the optical fibers F having uncoated fiber elements C to be held by the fiber-element securing member The holding elements form a pair of passages for guiding the optical fibers F on the body. The holding elements undergo the elastic deformation accompanying the motion, on the body, of the actuating member for closing the fiber-element securing member, and push and hold the sheath portions S of the optical fibers F in the corresponding passages by utilizing their own elastic restoring forces. Each holding element includes a pressing part formed at a free end separated away from a fixed end part and an engaging part positioned between the fixed end part and the pressing part.
An optical fiber connecting device for connecting uncoated fiber elements of a pair of optical fibers with each other in an abutment condition, comprising a body, a fiber-element securing member supported on said body to be operable between a closed position for securely holding an uncoated fiber element of an optical fiber and an opened position for releasing the uncoated fiber element, an actuating member supported on said body to operate said fiber-element securing member from said opened position to said closed position, and a sheath holding mechanism capable of holding a sheath portion of the optical fiber, in a fixed state relative to said body, with the uncoated fiber element thereof being securely held by said fiber-element securing member, wherein:
An optical fiber connecting device for connecting uncoated fiber elements of a pair of optical fibers with each other in an abutment condition, comprising a fiber-element securing member for securing an uncoated fiber element of an optical fiber, and a sheath holding mechanism capable of holding a sheath portion of the optical fiber, in a fixed state, with the uncoated fiber element thereof being secured by said fiber-element securing member, wherein:
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