Device for aligning optical fibers

US11347005B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA · BE

Inventors

• Jozef Christiaan Mathieu Versleegers · Bree, BE
• Erwin Junius · Tremelo, BE
• Marc Eugène Willem Bervoets · Hasselt, BE
• Danny Willy August Verheyden · Gelrode, BE
• Michael Aaron Kadar-Kallen · Harrisburg, US
• Dwight A. BRETZ · Hummelstown, US
• Robert Charles Flaig · Lancaster, US
• Michael Ward Zitsch · Carlisle, US
• Randall Bobby Paul · Elizabethville, US
• Michael Lawrence Gurreri · York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 28, 2017
• Grant date: May 31, 2022
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3858
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a fiber alignment device (20) including a guide feature (62a, b) defining a fiber alignment groove (48). The fiber alignment device (20) also includes a fiber engagement component (44) defining a reference surface arrangement and elastic cantilever arms (56a, b) for pressing optical fibers into the fiber alignment groove (48). First portions of the guide feature (62a, b) engage the reference surface arrangement. Second portions of the guide (62a, b) feature engage the cantilever arms (56a, b) to flex the cantilever arms to a staged position.