Patent ID: 8366328
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. An improved optical-fiber mechanical splicer, the improvement comprising: two curved restraining walls formed in said splicer and having substantially equal radii of curvature, said walls meeting together at one end thereof to form a linear channel having concave walls for securely supporting two separate optical fibers having unequal diameters in said channel for mechanical splicing purposes; and a cover, hinged at one end of said cover from said splicer, said cover including a cover arc formed therein having said radius of curvature and configured to firmly hold one of said fibers having the larger of said two unequal diameters within concave constraints of both said channel and said cover arc when said cover is locked closed; whereby said improvement provides greater overlap between cross-sections of said optical fibers at mechanically-spliced ends of said fibers than otherwise obtained via flat restraining walls and flat cover, said greater overlap reducing insertion loss at said spliced ends.