Method and device for welding contacts to optical waveguides

US6897404B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Lothar Bauer · Neunburg vorm Wald, DE
• Robert Germann · Groß-Umstadt, DE
• Michael Gerst · Worms, DE
• Helmut Kreuzer · Schwieberdingen, DE
• Gerd Stegmayer · Pocking, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 8, 2003
• Grant date: May 24, 2005
• Expiry date: Apr 8, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/381
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and device for welding pin contacts and socket contacts to an optical waveguide, the welding device has a contact loading station, a contact transport carriage, a laser welding device, and an electrical control unit. The contact loading station has a socket contact transfer device and a pin contact transfer device. The contact transport carriage has a pin contact holder and a socket contact holder. The contact transport carriage is displaceable between the contact loading station and the laser welding station. The electrical control unit controls the combination and number of socket contacts and pin contacts transferred from the socket contact transfer device to the socket contact holder and from the pin contact transfer device to the pin contact holder without having to re-tool the welding device.