Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Alignment device, splicing device, aligning method, and splicing method for optical fibers
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Application No.: US15019416Application Date: 2016-02-09
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Publication No.: US10025032B2Publication Date: 2018-07-17
- Inventor: Hiroki Hamaguchi , Nobuo Kuwaki
- Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
- Current Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2013-173580 20130823
- Main IPC: G02B6/255
- IPC: G02B6/255 ; G02B6/02 ; G02B6/42 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
An optical fiber alignment device includes an image-capturing device capturing images of end surfaces of two optical fibers; an image-analyzing device obtaining position coordinates of two or more cores in the end surfaces from the image captured by the image-capturing device for each of the two optical fibers; a calculation device substituting the position coordinates of the cores obtained for each of the optical fibers in a theoretical equation that represents a total sum of axial deviation losses at the time of splicing the cores to each other, the calculation device obtaining a positional relationship between the end surfaces of the optical fibers from the theoretical equation such that the total sum of the axial deviation losses becomes a minimum; and a driving device arranging the optical fibers such that the end surfaces of the optical fibers satisfy the positional relationship obtained by the calculation device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160161673A1 ALIGNMENT DEVICE, SPLICING DEVICE, ALIGNING METHOD, AND SPLICING METHOD FOR OPTICAL FIBERS Public/Granted day:2016-06-09
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