Optical fiber connection system including optical fiber alignment device

US11262511B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC · US
• CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA · BE

Inventors

• Michael Gurreri · York, US
• Robert Charles Flaig · Lancaster, US
• Randall Bobby Paul · Elizabethville, US
• Danny Willy August Verheyden · Gelrode, BE
• David Donald Erdman · Hummelstown, US
• Dwight A. BRETZ · Hummelstown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 24, 2019
• Grant date: Mar 1, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3882
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber alignment device that has an alignment housing that includes first and second ends. The alignment housing defines a fiber insertion axis that extends through the alignment housing between the first and second ends. The alignment housing includes a fiber alignment region at an intermediate location between the first and second ends. First and second fiber alignment rods are positioned within the alignment housing. The first and second fiber alignment rods cooperate to define a fiber alignment groove that extends along the fiber insertion axis. The first and second fiber alignment rods each having rounded ends positioned at the first and second ends of the alignment housing.