Optical waveguides – With splice – Including splice joint reinforcement
Patent
1992-01-14
1992-10-20
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
With splice
Including splice joint reinforcement
385 98, 385 95, 385 96, 65 31, 65 344, 65 56, 264 11, 264 15, G02B 626, C03C 2502, B29D 1100
Patent
active
051577518
ABSTRACT:
A protected fiber optical splice and a method for making the protected splice. The protective structure encapsulates first and second spliced optical fibers. The fibers are preferably fusion spliced. The protective structure includes a rigid tube surrounding the splice and its adjacent regions of the spliced fibers. A plastic such as an epoxy or moldable plastic is injected into the tube between the substantially axially centered fibers and splice, and the interior wall of the tube. Two molding fixtures are preferably surrounding the two ends of the tube, for injecting the moldable plastic into the tube and for shaping the portions of the structure external to the the tube ends.
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Maas Steven J.
Meyer A. Douglas
Carpenter M. Michael
Gillmann Harold E.
Healy Brian
Kirk James F.
Litton Systems Inc.
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