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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2017
Applicant:
Commscope Technologies Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Inventors:
David John Anderson, Bloomington, MN (US);
David Thomas Brown, Bury St Edmunds, GB;
Assignee:
CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/3866 (2013.01); G02B 6/382 (2013.01); G02B 6/3825 (2013.01); G02B 6/3831 (2013.01); G02B 6/3849 (2013.01); G02B 6/3885 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relates generally to incorporating an index matching gel within a HMFOC such that as the HMFOC is mated, fiber tips protruding from multi-fiber ferrules of the HMFOC pass through the indexing matching gel to remove contaminates therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to a method of removing contaminates from optical fibers upon mating a hardened multi-fiber optical connector (HMFOC) with another HMFOC.