Mounting apparatus for polishing end faces of optical fibers
AssigneeHermosa Thin Film Co., Ltd.
InventorKow-Je Ling
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Abstract
A mounting apparatus for polishing end faces of optical fibers, comprising a main body with fixing grooves; a fixing rod is accepted in each fixing groove; the upper end of the fixing rod is combined with the supporting stand; the bottom of the fixing rod has diametrically protruding engaging portion to allow the fixing rod not to be contacted with the fixing groove except at the engaging portion; the fixing groove is indented below the main body to cause a contact face of the bottom of the fixing rod and the fixing groove is on a same plane with a contact face of the polished end faces of optical fibers and a polishing surface to allow a same polished shape to be obtained at a same batch work of the polished end faces. Whereby, the polishing speed and quality can be enhanced.
Claims24
A mounting apparatus for polishing end faces of workpieces comprising:
- a) a main body having at least one fixing groove;
- b) at least one fixing rod inserted into one of the at least one fixing groove, an interior side surface of one of the at least one fixing groove and an exterior side surface of each of the at least one fixing rod are spaced apart a spacing distance except for an engaging portion, the engaging portion being selected from a group consisting of a first protruding engaging portion located on a bottom end of the exterior side surface of each of the at least one fixing rod and a second protruding engaging portion located on a bottom end of the interior side surface of each of the at least one fixing groove, the spacing distance being less than 20 centimeters;
- c) a supporting stand connected to an upper end of each of the at least one fixing rod;
- d) a plurality of fixtures connected to the main body and positioning the workpieces to be polished;
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- e) a contact plane located between a polishing surface and the end faces of the workpieces.
A mounting apparatus for polishing end faces of workpieces comprising:
- a) a main body having:
- i) a plurality of fixtures connected to a top surface thereof and positioning the workpieces to be polished;
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- ii) a plurality of contact elements extending downwardly from a bottom thereof;
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- b) a supporting stand having a plurality of positioning elements, one of the plurality of positioning elements engaging an engaging portion of each of the plurality of contact elements, one of the plurality of positioning elements being spaced apart a spacing distance from each of the plurality of contact elements except for the engaging portion, the spacing distance being less than 20 centimeters,
- wherein the plurality of contact elements and the plurality of positioning elements are selected from a group consisting of each of the plurality of contact elements are a fixing rod and each of the plurality of positioning elements are a groove hole, and each of the plurality of contact elements are a groove hole and each of the plurality of positioning elements are a fixing rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.