Field terminating method and device

US8657506B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tyco Electronics Co., Ltd · US

Inventors

• Shelly Ann Buchter · East Berlin, US
• Sean P. Kelly · Skokie, US
• Douglas Allen Kirsch · Shiremanstown, US
• David Donald Erdman · Hummelstown, US
• David William Cormany · Dauphin, US
• Terry Patrick Bowen · Dillsburg, US
• Craig Bryan Kegerise · Middletown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2011
• Grant date: Feb 25, 2014
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/3801
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of terminating a fiber in a connector using a device comprising: (a) positioning a stripped fiber on the device such that the bare fiber portion extends into a first fiber channel of a cleaver; (b) securing the fiber to a fiber retainer slidably attached to the substrate to move along an x axis at a first position; (c) cleaving the bare fiber portion to form a cleaved end; (d) sliding the fiber retainer away from the cleaver along the x axis; (e) causing to be presented a second fiber channel of a connector held in a connector retainer along the x axis; (f) sliding the fiber retainer to the first position along the x axis, thereby causing the cleaved end to extend into the second fiber channel; and (g) actuating the connector while the fiber retainer is at the first position.