US 11,668,881 B2
Cleaning stick guide
Kazuyoshi Takano, Tokyo (JP); and Kenji Iizumi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Senko Advanced Components, Inc., Hudson (MA)
Filed by Senko Advanced Components, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed on Sep. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/24,856.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/902,054, filed on Sep. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/926,639, filed on Oct. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0080659 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 6/38 (2006.01); B08B 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/3866 (2013.01) [B08B 1/00 (2013.01); B08B 2240/02 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cleaning stick guide for an optical housing having one or more ferrules therein, the cleaning stick guide comprising:
a guide housing configured to couple to the optical housing, the guide housing having a proximal end and a distal end, the guide housing including one or more guide passageways, each guide passageway extending from the proximal end through the distal end, each guide passageway configured to align with one ferrule of the one or more ferrules in the optical housing when the guide housing is coupled to the optical housing, each guide passageway being sized and shaped to receive a cleaning stick and to guide the cleaning stick to said one ferrule for cleaning said one ferrule, and
a dust cover coupled to the guide housing and moveable relative to the guide housing between a closed position and an open position, wherein in the closed position the dust cover blocks the one or more guide passageways and wherein in the open position the dust cover permits access to the one or more guide passageways,
wherein the dust cover includes one or more protrusions, and each protrusion has a cross-sectional shape that corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the guide passageway.