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US 8,998,682 B2Granted
Devices and methods for automatically cleaving and abrading cables
AssigneekSARIA Corporation
InventorsAnthony J. Christopher, George Ciolfi
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Abstract
An apparatus includes: a cleaver configured to automatically cleave a bare fiber extending from an end face of a terminus or connector of a fiber optic cable, the cleaver including a bending element configured to bend the bare fiber and a defect-formation device configured to create a surface defect in surface of the bare fiber under tension when the bare fiber is bent by the bending element; and an abrader configured to automatically finish the end face of the terminus or connector after the bare fiber is cleaved.
Claims18
A device comprising:
- a cleaver configured to automatically cleave a bare fiber extending from an end face of a terminus or connector of a fiber optic cable, the cleaver including a stress applicator configured to stress the bare fiber and a defect-formation device configured to create a surface defect at a surface of the bare fiber under stress when the bare fiber is stressed by the stress applicator;
- an abrader configured to automatically abrade the end face of the terminus or connector after the bare fiber is cleaved;
- a chuck configured to receive the terminus or connector;
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- an index carriage configured to selectably move between a first position in which the cleaver is aligned with the chuck and a second position in which the abrader is aligned with the chuck.
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A device comprising:
- a cleaver configured to automatically cleave a bare fiber extending from an end face of a terminus or connector of a fiber optic cable, the cleaver including a stress applicator configured to stress the bare fiber and a defect-formation device configured to create a surface defect at a surface of the bare fiber under stress when the bare fiber is stressed by the stress applicator;
- an abrader configured to automatically abrade the end face of the terminus or connector after the bare fiber is cleaved;
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- a controller configured to control and coordinate automatic operation of the cleaver and the abrader.
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A method comprising:
- automatically cleaving a bare fiber extending from an end face of a terminus or connector of a fiber optic cable;
- automatically abrading the end face of the terminus or connector after the bare fiber is cleaved, the abrading causing removal of at least one of (a) an end portion of the optical fiber extending from the end face and (b) an epoxy exposed at the end face;
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- automatically transitioning between the automatically cleaving and the automatically abrading.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.