Seon Ja Kim

US Patent:

20180128991, May 10, 2018

Filed:

Sep 6, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/697439

Inventors:

- El Segundo CA, US
King-Fu HII - Camarillo CA, US
Seon KIM - Rancho Palos Verdes CA, US

International Classification:

G02B 6/38

Abstract:

A process and tool for reshaping and resizing grooves that were pre-formed in a pair of ferrules halves of an optical fiber ferrule. A high-precision alignment fixture produces a ferrule assembly with an optical fiber precisely held therein in alignment with the external alignment surface of the ferrule assembly. The fixture uses a double-compound flexure supporting a linearly moving body (e.g., a reshaping and resizing jaw), which eliminates parasitic displacement in a direction lateral to the direction of linear motion of the moving body. Each compound flexure includes a pair of double parallel leaf springs (in series).