Patent ID: 8657506
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G02B

Abstract:
1. A method of terminating a fiber in a connector using a device having a substrate with x and y axes, said fiber being stripped to present a bare fiber portion extending from a buffered portion, said method comprising: (a) positioning a stripped fiber on said device such that said bare fiber portion extends into a first fiber channel of a cleaver; (b) securing said fiber to a fiber retainer slidably attached to said substrate to move along said x axis at a first position on said x axis; (c) cleaving said bare fiber portion to form a cleaved end; (d) sliding said fiber retainer away from said cleaver along said x axis; (e) causing to be presented a second fiber channel of a connector held between first and second dies in a connector retainer along said x axis; (f) sliding said fiber retainer to said first position along said x axis, thereby causing said cleaved end to extend into said second fiber channel; and (g) actuating said first and second dies to move toward each other, thereby compressing said connector held between said first and second dies and thereby clamping said cleaved end to said connector.