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Pk Technology, Inc.

David A Kritler

Warren R Hill

John Wesley Dyer

Frederic C Schildmeyer

Martin L Boehme

Damien Slevin

Robert A Ewert

E Boyd Osgood

Christiaan Johannes Brokke

Bruce C Whitney

Peter Tabur

Francis Martin Ernest Sladen

A method of preparing a coated optical fiber for coupling to a face of an optical device includes placing the coated fiber so that it extends through a stripping station, a cleaning station and a cleaving station. A stripper at the stripping station is brought into engagement with the fiber and relative motion between the fiber and the stripping station, the cleaning station and the cleaving station is effected lengthwise of the fiber, whereby the coating is stripped from a medial length segment of the fiber as the cleaning device at the cleaning station is activated for cleaning fragments of coating material from the medial length segment of the fiber as the medial length segment passes through the cleaning station and the cleaning device is deactivated and stripping is discontinued. The fiber is positioned with the medial length segment at the cleaving station, the fiber is clamped at a location that is upstream of the cleaving station with respect to the direction from the stripping station to the cleaving station, and the fiber is cleaved within the medial length segment, thereby providing the fiber with a freshly cleaved end region.

Apparatus and method for preparing a coated optical fiber

An optical fiber aligner includes an alignment block formed with an alignment channel and two rods fitted in the alignment channel. The rods are held in spaced apart relationship in the alignment channel whereby an open bottom groove is formed between the rods for receiving the ends of two optical fibers to be aligned. The space between the rods is sufficiently wide to allow dirt and debris from the fibers to pass between the rods but not so wide as to allow the fibers to pass between the rods.

Aligner for slender elongate members

A holder for receiving and holding a plurality of loose optical fibers which are of substantially equal thickness, comprises a base plate having a top surface on which the fibers can rest in side by side relationship, and an abutment projecting above the top surface of the base plate and defining a shoulder against which one of the fibers resting on the top surface can engage. A keeper extends over the top surface of the base plate in spaced relationship therewith for restraining the fibers against movement away from the top surface, and a lid is pivotable relative to the base plate between a closed position, in which it engages the fibers, and an open position. The base plate includes a permanent magnet and the lid includes magnetic material, whereby when the lid is in the closed position, it is retained in that position by magnetic attraction.

Holder for loose optical fibers

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Lake Oswego, OR, United States of America

David A Kritler