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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1983
Peter Steinmann, Deisenhofen, DE;
Reinhard Engel, Munich, DE;
Richard Parstorfer, Geltendorf, DE;
Rudolf Brugger, Puchheim, DE;
Gerhard Jonke, Gilching, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin & Munich, DE;
Abstract
A device for splicing light waveguides, such as optical fibers, having an internal sheath and an outer sheath, characterized by an arrangement for clamping each of the waveguides by engaging their sheaths and lowering the unsheathed end portion into a centering groove where the ends are heated and fused together by an alternating current discharge path. The required convergence and alignment of the light waveguide ends during the welding step are automatically controlled by an advanced arrangement which is sequentially controlled with the welding step. Subsequent to the gearing of the ends, the clamping element releases the waveguides adjacent to the fused joint and are moved by a restoring arrangement to stretch the joint into a straight line position.