PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16226746
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["385", "053000"]

Abstract:
The present embodiment makes it possible to reduce the height of an optical connection component including a bent optical fiber having a bent-shape part and a fiber fixing component in a safer and more stable manner compared to a conventional technique. Before the fiber fixing component is fixed to the bent optical fiber, formation of a bent portion using the fiber fixing component obliquely disposed and heating of the bent portion are repeated a plurality of times for the optical fiber to which the fiber fixing component is movably fitted. At that time, movement of the optical fiber and the heating of the bent portion are alternately repeated. Thus, a plurality of bent portions where stress is released is formed in the optical fiber along the longitudinal direction thereof.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for manufacturing an optical connection component including a bent optical fiber having a bent-shape part and a fiber fixing component attached to the bent optical fiber, the method comprising:\n a pre-step of preparing an optical fiber comprised of silica-based glass and the fiber fixing component, the fiber fixing component having a structure for limiting movement of the optical fiber in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber; a fitting step of fitting the fiber fixing component on one end part of the optical fiber in a state movable in the longitudinal direction, and fixing the other end part of the optical fiber to a fiber feeding mechanism, a bent optical fiber manufacturing step of, to form the bent-shape part in the optical fiber, forming a plurality of bent portions in the optical fiber, the plurality of bent portions being separated from each other along the longitudinal direction; and a fixing step of fixing the fiber fixing component to the bent optical fiber after adjusting relative positions of the bent-shape part and the fiber fixing component, wherein the bent optical fiber manufacturing step includes: an elastic bending step of, to form a bent portion in the optical fiber, inclining a posture of the fiber fixing component by a predetermined angle with respect to a feeding direction of the optical fiber while feeding the optical fiber toward the fiber fixing component by the fiber feeding mechanism; and a heating step of heating and softening the bent portion to release stress in the bent portion, and wherein a pair of the elastic bending step and the heating step is repeated a plurality of times to form a plurality of bent portions separated from each other along the longitudinal direction in the optical fiber, while changing an inclination angle of the fiber fixing component with respect to the feeding direction of, the optical fiber in the elastic bending step so that the inclination angle becomes greater stepwise every time the elastic bending step is performed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06061
- Patent Class: 385.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14714527', '15403622', '15883388', '16121983', '12711766']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8173009725673636
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5034291068395046
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7859137859945777
- Mean Citation Score: 233.525952
- Max Citation Score: 285.9328
- Similarity Product: 222.7986211921692

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test