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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2015
Zynon Technologies, Llc, New Britain, CT (US);
Jay S. Tourigny, Collinsville, CT (US);
ZYNON TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, New Britain, CT (US);
Abstract
The cleaning head () of a swab-like cleaning device () for cleaning optical fiber end faces, especially the lens of expanded beam ('EB') optical fibers, has a concave configuration of its cleaning surface (). This provides for effective engagement of the cleaning surface with the convex, e.g., spherical or nearly spherical, light transmission surfaces of the lenses () of EB optical fibers. The cleaning head comprises coherent bodies of sintered polymers and may have zones of different density. Deformability of at least that portion of the cleaning head () which terminates in the cleaning surface () facilitates use of the cleaning device for non-EB as well as EB optical fiber end faces by better conforming the cleaning surface to the end faces during cleaning of the end faces.