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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
May. 21, 2015
Adc Telecommunications, Inc., Berwyn, PA (US);
Adc Czech Republic, S.r.o., Brno, CZ;
Joel Halls, Faribault, MN (US);
Scott Carlson, Bloomington, MN (US);
Michael James Ott, Hudson, WI (US);
Todd Curtis Strahl, Lakeville, MN (US);
Jan Vozdecky, Brno, CZ;
Francisco Gerardo Carrillo Velarde, El Paso, TX (US);
Yu Lu, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Joseph Blaser, Shakopee, MN (US);
Mark D. Narum, Minnetonka, MN (US);
CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
ADC Czech Republic, S.R.O., , CZ;
Abstract
A processing system to connectorize optical cables includes processing stations on a table arrangement; and a track arrangement. The processing stations include: a strip-clean-cleave station that creates prepared ends of cable fibers and stub fibers; a splice station that fusion splices the prepared ends of cable and stub fibers; an overmold station that injection molds hubs around the splices; a UV cure station and a heat cure station for the injection molding; and a connector assembly station at which an optical connector is assembled at an end of each optical cable.