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US 9,316,796 B2Granted
Fiber pigtail with integrated lid
AssigneesInternational Business Machines Corporation, AFL Telecommunications LLC
InventorsTymon Barwicz, Paul F. Fortier, Ted Lichoulas
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Abstract
A mechanism is provided for a fiber pigtail. The fiber pigtail includes a single mode fiber optic ribbon having a section of polymer ribbon removed to expose bare fibers, a fiber optic ferrule in contact with the single mode fiber optic ribbon at one distal end, and an integrated polymer lid permanently attached to the bare fibers of the single mode fiber optic ribbon at another distal end of the single mode fiber optic ribbon.
Claims4
A method of fabricating a fiber pigtail, the method comprising:
- Assembling a fiber optic ferrule to a fiber optic ribbon, a fiber optic ribbon end protruding from the fiber optic ferrule;
- Stripping the fiber optic ribbon end protruding from the fiber optic ferrule to expose bare fibers;
- Cleaving the fiber optic ribbon end;
- Positioning the fiber optic ribbon end in a temporary V-groove to align a plane of the fiber optic ribbon end with a fixed position in the temporary V-groove;
- Placing a polymer lid with an adhesive layer on the fiber optic ribbon end that is position in the temporary V-groove;
- Applying mechanical pressure to a top surface of the polymer lid to ensure that the adhesive layer contacts a fiber surface of the fiber optic ribbon end;
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- Removing the temporary V-groove from the fiber optic ribbon end to leave an integrated polymer lid having a flat bottom surface, the flat bottom surface being attached to the bare fibers of a fiber optic ribbon end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.