Patent ID: 6751394
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
A sleeve insert for guiding optical waveguide elements and for accommodating a splicing device, comprising a profiled body, the length of which must be adapted to the dimension of the respective sleeve, the profiled body exhibiting the following: a bottom wall, two side walls which are opposite one another at a distance from one another and which are in each case constructed on the bottom wall at a distance from the longitudinal side edge of the bottom wall, the side walls and the bottom wall forming a chamber, the side walls having at their end facing away from the bottom wall in each case an upper guide wall which, in cross section, coming from the bottom wall, first extends a little way in the direction of the side facing away from the chamber and a little way in the direction of the bottom wall, and the bottom wall having at each of its longitudinal side edges a lower guide wall which, in cross section, extends in the direction of the end, facing away from the bottom wall, of the associated side wall, so that it in each case forms, together with the respective associated upper guide wall, a lateral guide chamber and which, in cross section, also initially extends a little way away from the end facing away from the bottom wall and then a little way toward the inside, so that furthermore a lower guide chamber is formed by the two lower guide walls.