Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Connector with built-in bent optical fibers and method for producing bent optical fibers
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Application No.: US15403622Application Date: 2017-01-11
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Publication No.: US10036856B2Publication Date: 2018-07-31
- Inventor: Katsuki Suematsu , Takeshi Akutsu , Kohei Kawasaki
- Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Dorsey & Whitney LLP
- Priority: JP2014-143316 20140711
- Main IPC: G02B6/26
- IPC: G02B6/26 ; G02B6/38 ; G02B6/42 ; C03B37/15

Abstract:
A connector with built-in bent optical fibers includes an optical fiber array including a plurality of bent optical fibers each having a bent portion and a linear portion formed integrally with the bent portion, a ferrule having a plurality of positioning mechanisms that align end portions of the plurality of bent optical fibers, and a resin portion disposed at an outer periphery of the bent portion. The resin portion is filled in the ferrule. The bent portion has a bending angle of 85°-150°. When the bent portion of one bent optical fiber is divided into a plurality of regions along a longitudinal direction at 10°, a variation in bend radius among the plurality of regions excluding regions corresponding to 10° at both ends is 0.3 mm or less, an outer diameter of the bent portion of the bent optical fiber is smaller than an outer diameter of the linear portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170123164A1 CONNECTOR WITH BUILT-IN BENT OPTICAL FIBERS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING BENT OPTICAL FIBERS Public/Granted day:2017-05-04
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