Patent ID: 8844602
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G02B,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A terminus processing tool adapted to contact a coating at an end surface of an optical fiber composed of a glass fiber and the coating, the terminus processing tool comprising: an outer wall that includes a fiber entering end and an inner surface that defines a hollow space, the inner surface surrounding the hollow space, the fiber entering end having an opening that is open to the hollow space, the outer wall being dimensioned to surround the optical fiber when the optical fiber is inserted into the hollow space of the terminus processing tool via the opening at the fiber entering end; and an end wall having a truncated conically shaped surface further defining the hollow space, the outer wall and the end wall being continuous, the truncated conically shaped surface facing the inner surface, the truncated conically shaped surface having a bottom end and a top end, the bottom end having a first diameter and the top end having a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter, the bottom end being spaced apart from the fiber entering end of the outer wall by a first distance, the top end being spaced apart from the fiber entering end of the outer wall by a second distance that is less than the first distance, the bottom end of the truncated conically shaped surface intersecting with the inner surface at a location spaced apart from the fiber entering end by the first distance, both the first distance and the second distance being measured parallel to the inner surface, the truncated conically shaped surface having a coating removing edge formed at the top end around a hole in the truncated conically shaped surface into whose interior the glass fiber protrudes as the coating is removed from the glass fiber, and from the bottom end toward the top end thereof the truncated conically shaped surface further extends away from the inner surface of the outer wall.