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US 2010/0303432 A1Published application
Optical device cleaning
AssigneeVerizon Services Organization Inc.
InventorDavid Z. CHEN
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Abstract
An optical device may include first and second male connectors and a patch panel that includes through holes for interconnecting the first male connectors and the second male connectors. The optical device may also include a patch panel cleaner to automatically clean the through holes of the patch panel, and a connector cleaner to automatically clean the first male connectors or the second male connectors.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A system comprising:
- a fiber inspection scope to determine an optical transmission loss associated with an optical fiber connector;
- and
- a cleaning device to:
- initiate a cleaning process to remove contaminants from the optical fiber connector when the optical transmission loss is greater than a first threshold value, and
- discontinue the cleaning process when the optical transmission loss is equal to or less than a second threshold value, where the first threshold value and the second threshold value differ.
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An optical patch panel system, comprising:
- a patch panel including a plurality of through holes to seat corresponding pairs of first and second optical fiber connectors;
- a first cleaner to:
- determine that at least two of the plurality of through holes are available,
- select one of the available through holes,
- determine that the selected through hole is to be cleaned, and
- automatically clean, based on determining that the selected through hole is to be cleaned, the selected through hole;
- and
- a second cleaner to:
- perform a check of a performance of an optical fiber connector to be seated within the selected through hole, and
- clean, when the performance is determined to be below a first particular level, the optical fiber connector until the performance is determined to be above a second particular level, where the first and second particular levels differ.
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A method comprising:
- fiber scoping an optical fiber connector to determine an optical transmission loss associated with the optical fiber connector;
- and
- initiating, based on a first result of the fiber scoping, a cleaning process to remove contaminants from the optical fiber connector when the optical transmission loss is greater than a first threshold value;
- and
- discontinuing, based on a second result of the fiber scoping, the cleaning process when the optical transmission loss is equal to or less than a second threshold value, where the first threshold value and the second threshold value differ.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.