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AssigneeTyco Electronics Corporation
InventorsShelly Ann Buchter, Sean Patrick Kelly, Douglas Allen Kirsch, David Donald Erdman, David William Cormany, Terry Patrick Bowen, Craig Bryan Kegerise
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A method of terminating a fiber in a connector using a device comprising: (a) positioning a stripped fiber on the device such that the bare fiber portion extends into a first fiber channel of a cleaver; (b) securing the fiber to a fiber retainer slidably attached to the substrate to move along an x axis at a first position; (c) cleaving the bare fiber portion to form a cleaved end; (d) sliding the fiber retainer away from the cleaver along the x axis; (e) causing to be presented a second fiber channel of a connector held in a connector retainer along the x axis; (f) sliding the fiber retainer to the first position along the x axis, thereby causing the cleaved end to extend into the second fiber channel; and (g) actuating the connector while the fiber retainer is at the first position.
A method of terminating a fiber in a connector using a device having a substrate with x and y axes, said fiber being stripped to present a bare fiber portion extending from a buffered portion, said method comprising:
A device for field termination of optical connectors, said device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.