Fiber optic connector end face encapsulant forming and curing device
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsDennis Marvin BRAUN, Yu LU
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for cleaning, verifying cleaning, and coating a ferrule end face in a single housing thereby preventing contamination of the ferrule end face and associated optical fiber end face. Also disclosed herein is a fiber optic assembly including a ferrule; an optical fiber extending through the ferrule to an end face of the ferrule; and a coating on the end face of the ferrule protecting the optical fiber. The coating is prepared by curing a vinyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane with a crosslinker in the presence of a catalyst.
Claims20
A device, comprising:
- a ferrule end face cleaning device in a housing;
- a device that verifies cleaning performance of the ferrule end face cleaning device in the housing;
- and
- a ferrule end face encapsulating device in the housing.
A method, comprising:
- cleaning an end face of an optical fiber in a ferrule in a housing;
- inspecting the end face of the optical fiber in the housing;
- and
- coating the end face of the optical fiber in a molding cavity, wherein the molding cavity is located in the housing.
A fiber optic assembly, comprising:
- a ferrule;
- an optical fiber extending through the ferrule to an end face of the ferrule;
- and
- a coating on the end face of the ferrule protecting the optical fiber,
- wherein the coating is prepared by curing a vinyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane with a crosslinker in the presence of a catalyst.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.