Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture – Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor – Automatic and/or material-triggered control
Patent
1996-02-23
1998-06-23
Simmons, David A.
Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
Surface bonding means and/or assembly means therefor
Automatic and/or material-triggered control
156353, 156358, 156359, 156362, 156378, 156557, 29710, 29711, 385 60, 385 78, B32B 3100
Patent
active
057700010
ABSTRACT:
An automatic assembly and inspection system for optical connectors is provided, which is highly reliable and which can produce economical and highly-effective optical cords or cables with optical connectors. The automatic assembly and inspection system for optical connectors comprises a pallet for installing an optical cord; a transfer mechanism for transferring the pallet; modules for performing various processes for assembling an optical connector with the optical cord installed on the pallet which is transferred by the transfer mechanism, said various processes including one or more of the processes such as required-length cutting, pre-processing, cleaning, insertion, curing, polishing, polished surface inspection, final assembling, optical performance evaluation, and stamping, and each of the modules having a common combining mechanism and a common communication means with respect to the transfer mechanism; and a system controller for performing supervised control for the transfer mechanism and the modules based on parameters which indicate specifications for assembly and inspection of the optical connector.
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Nagayama Akira
Oguchi Sigemitu
Saitoh Tadao
Sasakura Kunihiko
Yoshizawa Takashi
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Rivard Paul M.
Simmons David A.
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