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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Commscope Connectivity Belgium Bvba, Kessel-Lo, BE;
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, PA (US);
Dwight Andrew Bretz, Hummelstown, PA (US);
Robert Charles Flaig, Lancaster, PA (US);
Michael Ward Zitsch, Carlisle, PA (US);
Randall Bobby Paul, Elizabethville, PA (US);
Michael Lawrence Gurreri, York, PA (US);
CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA, Kessel-Lo, BE;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a fiber alignment device () including a guide feature () defining a fiber alignment groove (). The fiber alignment device () also includes a fiber engagement component () defining a reference surface arrangement and elastic cantilever arms () for pressing optical fibers into the fiber alignment groove (). First portions of the guide feature () engage the reference surface arrangement. Second portions of the guide () feature engage the cantilever arms () to flex the cantilever arms to a staged position.