Equipment for attaching an optical fiber to a reel
AssigneeRosendahl Nextrom GmbH
InventorsMatti INNILÄ, Jukka MÖNKKÖNEN, Touko LIIKONEN
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Abstract
An equipment is disclosed for attaching an optical fiber to a reel, the equipment including a tape supply station configured to cut and supply pieces of tape, an attachment device having a frame with a collector for collecting a piece of tape from the tape supply station for attaching the optical fiber to the reel, an actuator for moving the attachment device and for pressing the collector, having the piece of tape, against the optical fiber and the reel in order to attach the optical fiber to the reel, and a cutter for cutting the optical fiber. Such an equipment can be advantageous as manual labour can be excluded from the process of attaching an optical fiber to a reel.
Claims9
An equipment for attaching an optical fiber to a reel, the equipment comprising:
- a tape supply station configured to cut and supply pieces of tape;
- an attachment device having a frame with a collector for collecting a piece of tape from the tape supply station for attaching the optical fiber to a reel;
- an actuator arranged for moving the attachment device and for pressing the collector having said piece of tape against an optical fiber and a reel in order to attach said optical fiber to said reel;
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- a cutter for cutting optical fiber, where said cutter is a blade arranged alongside a spring-biased frame of said attachment device, in order to protrude out past the collector, when the spring-biased frame is compressed, to attach an optical fiber to a reel and cut the optical fiber with a single motion when the collector of the attachment device is pressed against the optical fiber and the reel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.