US 11,709,322 B2
Portable device for attaching a connector to an optical fiber
Danny Willy August Verheyden, Gelrode (BE); David Donald Erdman, Hummelstown, PA (US); Michael Gurreri, York, PA (US); Randall Bobby Paul, Elizabethville, PA (US); Jan Watté, Grimbergen (BE); Robert Charles Flaig, Lancaster, PA (US); Alan Edward Plotts, Harrisburg, PA (US); Michael Aaron Kadar-Kallen, Harrisburg, PA (US); Shelly Ann Buchter, East Berlin, PA (US); Jan Vandenbroeck, Aarschot (BE); Patrick Billet, Dilbeek (BE); Stefano Beri, Brussels (BE); André Johannes Maria Hilderink, Haaksbergen (NL); Hernes Jacobs, Ossum (NL); Petrus Theodorus Rutgers, Hengelo (NL); Petrus Theodorus Krechting, Enschede (NL); Martijn Johannes Wolbers, Hengelo (NL); Walter Mattheus, Wijgmaal (BE); Cristian-Radu Radulescu, Liege (BE); Paul Vits, Tielt-Winge (BE); Karel Johannes Van Assenbergh, Twist (BE); Pieter Cornelis Johan De Jager, Wierden (NL); and Henk Jan Theodoor Van Der Pol, Hengelo (NL)
Assigned to CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA, Kessel-Lo (BE); and CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
Filed by CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA, Kessel-Lo (BE); and CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/34,979.
Application 17/034,979 is a continuation of application No. 16/172,050, filed on Oct. 26, 2018, granted, now 10,788,625.
Application 16/172,050 is a continuation of application No. 15/338,003, filed on Oct. 28, 2016, granted, now 10,114,178, issued on Oct. 30, 2018.
Application 15/338,003 is a continuation of application No. 14/000,345, granted, now 9,481,129, issued on Nov. 1, 2016, previously published as PCT/US2012/024189, filed on Feb. 7, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/544,880, filed on Oct. 7, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/443,933, filed on Feb. 17, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/443,942, filed on Feb. 17, 2011.
Claims priority of application No. 1174376 (EP), filed on Jul. 18, 2011; application No. 12151987 (EP), filed on Jan. 20, 2012; and application No. 12151988 (EP), filed on Jan. 20, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2021/0026077 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 6/38 (2006.01); B29C 65/72 (2006.01); B29C 65/00 (2006.01); B29D 11/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/3825 (2013.01) [B29C 65/72 (2013.01); B29C 66/90 (2013.01); B29D 11/00711 (2013.01); G02B 6/3866 (2013.01); G02B 6/3898 (2013.01); B29K 2995/0049 (2013.01); B65H 2701/32 (2013.01); G02B 27/0006 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for processing a first and a second optical fiber connector, the first optical fiber connector comprising a first optical fiber having a first bare end and comprising a core and a cladding surrounding the core, the second optical fiber connector comprising a second optical fiber having a second bare end and comprising a core and a cladding surrounding the core, the method comprising the steps of:
mechanically cleaving the first bare end to form a first end face of the first bare end;
mechanically cleaving the second bare end to form a second end face of the second bare end; and
separately heat treating each of the first end face and the second end face to yield a first heat treated end face and a second heat treated end face, the first and second heat treated end faces being configured to be mated for mechanically connecting the first and second optical fiber connectors;
wherein the first and second end faces are configured to be demated.