Optical fiber coating removing device and removing method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of optical fiber production and detection equipment, and particularly relates to an optical fiber coating removing device and an optical fiber coating removing method.
Background
When the optical fiber is detected and welded, the coating on the outer surface of the optical fiber needs to be removed by using an optical fiber coating stripping device, the existing optical fiber coating glass device is mainly an optical fiber stripping clamp, the optical fiber stripping clamp clamps the optical fiber by adopting two high sheets which are in contact up and down, when the coating is required to be stripped, the optical fiber is placed at an opening, and after the handle of the optical fiber stripping clamp is held by hands to clamp, the optical fiber core part of the stripped coating can be obtained by pulling out the optical fiber. The method for stripping the optical fiber coating by using the optical fiber stripper is easy to break the fiber core; the coating is stripped, and the fiber core can remain coated particles, so that the particles are required to be cleaned, the operation steps are more, and the fiber fusion welding and detection in mass production are not facilitated.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides an optical fiber coating removing device, which is used for simultaneously stripping and cleaning an optical fiber coating so as to improve the removing efficiency of the optical fiber coating, and has the advantages of simple structure and convenient installation and use.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows: an optical fiber coating removing device comprises a fiber core and a coating coated on the surface of the fiber core, wherein the optical fiber coating removing device comprises a fiber stripping cutter which is fixed in a bottom box; a top cover is arranged at the box opening of the bottom box, a fiber penetrating hole is formed in the position, right above the fiber stripping cutter, of the top cover, and the outer diameter of the optical fiber is smaller than the aperture of the fiber penetrating hole; a cleaning block is arranged in the top cover around the fiber penetrating hole; the optical fiber to be cleaned of the coating enters the fiber stripping cutter from the fiber penetrating hole, and the cleaning block cleans the fiber core when the fiber core stripped of the coating by the fiber stripping cutter penetrates out of the fiber penetrating hole.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the fiber stripping cutter further comprises a cutter frame and a blade arranged on the cutter frame, wherein the blade is provided with a fiber stripping hole, the fiber stripping hole and the fiber penetrating hole are coaxially arranged, the aperture of the fiber stripping hole is larger than the outer diameter of the fiber core, and the outer diameter of the fiber stripping hole is smaller than the outer diameter of the coating; the cutting edge of the blade is arranged on the wall of the fiber stripping hole; the knife rest is internally provided with a fiber inlet groove which is communicated with the fiber stripping hole.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the tool rest further includes a base, two elastic vertical plates disposed on the base, and a gap between the two elastic vertical plates forms the fiber inlet slot; the elastic vertical plate can swing by taking the joint of the elastic vertical plate and the base as a fulcrum; the blade is provided with a first blade body and a second blade body which can be folded or unfolded, the first blade body and the second blade body are respectively arranged on the two elastic vertical plates, concave holes are formed in the first blade body and the second blade body, and the concave holes of the first blade body and the second blade body form the fiber stripping holes after the first blade body and the second blade body are folded.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a pulling piece is further disposed on the bottom surface of the top cover, the pulling piece is disposed obliquely downward with respect to a horizontal plane, and the pulling piece is disposed obliquely downward toward the fiber stripping hole.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the bottom surface of the top cover is further provided with two pulling pieces, and the two pulling pieces are symmetrically arranged with the fiber penetrating hole as a center.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a spring is connected between the top cover and the bottom case, the top cover is connected to the bottom case through the spring, and the spring is capable of deforming along the depth direction of the bottom case.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the present invention further includes a guide sleeve disposed vertically in the bottom case, and the spring body is disposed in the guide sleeve, and two ends of the spring body are respectively connected to the top cover and the bottom case.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the top cover further comprises a through hole, wherein the through hole transversely penetrates through the side edge of the top cover and the fiber penetrating hole, and the cleaning block is arranged in the through hole.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is further comprised that said cleaning block is a sponge.
In order to achieve the above object, another technical scheme of the present invention is as follows: a method for removing an optical fiber coating, using the optical fiber coating removing apparatus of the above structure, comprising the steps of:
(1) The top cover is pressed downwards to drive the poking piece to outwards prop open the first blade body or/and the second blade body, so that the aperture of the fiber stripping hole is larger than the outer diameter of the optical fiber;
(2) The optical fiber to be cleaned of the coating extends downwards into the bottom box from the fiber penetrating hole and is inserted into the fiber groove from the spread fiber stripping hole;
(3) Releasing the top cover, and resetting the top cover in a rebound manner under the action of reverse elastic force accumulated by the spring to drive the poking plate to rise, wherein the first blade body and the second blade body lose the poking plate to be folded, so that the fiber stripping hole with the aperture smaller than the outer diameter of the optical fiber is clamped by the optical fiber;
(4) Pulling the clamped optical fiber upwards, and stripping the coating on the surface of the fiber core by a blade in the fiber stripping hole, wherein the bare fiber core is pulled out of the fiber stripping hole;
(5) The cleaning block cleans the surface of the fiber core when the fiber core is pulled out through the fiber penetrating hole.
The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:
firstly, the optical fiber coating removing device of the invention can simultaneously strip and clean the optical fiber coating, thereby improving the removing efficiency of the optical fiber coating, having simple structure and convenient installation and use, and being suitable for removing the coating of the single-mode optical fiber and the multi-mode optical fiber;
and secondly, the fiber stripping cutter with the optimized structural design only receives radial force when stripping the coating, and the radial force is balanced, so that the fiber core is not easy to pull.
Drawings
In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the construction of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a fiber peeling tool according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Wherein: 2-fiber stripping cutters, 4-bottom boxes, 6-top covers, 8-fiber penetrating holes, 10-cleaning blocks, 12-knife rest, 14-blades, 16-fiber stripping holes, 18-fiber penetrating grooves, 20-bases, 22-elastic vertical plates, 24-first blade bodies, 26-second blade bodies, 28-poking sheets, 30-springs, 32-guide sleeves and 34-perforation.
Detailed Description
The following description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Example 1
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the embodiment discloses an optical fiber coating removing device, wherein the optical fiber comprises a fiber core and a coating coated on the surface of the fiber core, the optical fiber coating removing device is used for removing the coating of the optical fiber and comprises a fiber stripping cutter 2, and the fiber stripping cutter 2 is fixed in a bottom box 4; a top cover 6 is arranged at the box opening of the bottom box 4, a fiber penetrating hole 8 is formed in the position, right above the fiber stripping cutter 2, of the top cover 6, and the outer diameter of the optical fiber is smaller than the aperture of the fiber penetrating hole 8; a cleaning block 10 is arranged in the top cover 6 around the fiber penetrating hole 8; the optical fiber to be cleaned of the coating enters the fiber stripping cutter 2 from the fiber penetrating hole 8, and the cleaning block 10 cleans the fiber core when the fiber core stripped by the fiber stripping cutter 2 penetrates out of the fiber penetrating hole 8. The optical fiber coating removing device with the structure can simultaneously strip and clean the optical fiber coating, thereby improving the removing efficiency of the optical fiber coating.
Specifically, the top cover 6 is provided with a perforation 34, the perforation 34 transversely penetrates through the side edge of the top cover 6 and the fiber penetrating hole 8, and the cleaning block 10 is arranged in the perforation 34; in the technical solution of this embodiment, the cleaning block 10 is preferably a sponge filled in the through hole 34, and the sponge can buffer alcohol for cleaning, is soft, and can not damage the fiber core in the process of cleaning the fiber core. The sponge is placed in the perforations 34 to facilitate lateral force to compress the sponge against the outside of the core, which facilitates thorough cleaning.
In the technical scheme of the embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the fiber stripping cutter 2 includes a cutter frame 12 and a blade 14 disposed on the cutter frame 12, wherein the blade 14 is provided with a fiber stripping hole 16, the fiber stripping hole 16 and the fiber penetrating hole 8 are coaxially disposed, and the diameter of the fiber stripping hole 16 is larger than the outer diameter of the fiber core and smaller than the outer diameter of the coating; the cutting edge of the blade 14 is arranged on the wall of the fiber stripping hole 16; a fiber inlet groove 18 is arranged in the tool rest 12, and the fiber inlet groove 18 is communicated with the fiber stripping hole 16.
Specifically, the tool holder 12 includes a base 20, two elastic risers 22 disposed on the base 20, and a gap between the two elastic risers 22 forms the fiber inlet slot 18; the elastic standing plate 22 can swing by taking the joint of the elastic standing plate and the base 20 as a fulcrum; the blade 14 has a first blade body 24 and a second blade body 26 that can be folded or unfolded, the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 are respectively disposed on the two elastic risers 22, concave holes are formed in the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26, and the concave holes of the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 after being folded form the fiber stripping hole 16.
When entering fiber, the method comprises the following steps: the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 are stretched under the action of external force, so that the aperture of the fiber stripping hole 16 is larger than the outer diameter of the optical fiber of which the coating is to be removed, at this time, the optical fiber of which the coating is to be removed enters the fiber slot 18 from the fiber penetrating hole 8 through the fiber stripping hole 16 under the action of external force, and the coating is to be stripped.
When stripping the fiber, the fiber: the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 are folded, and the concave holes of the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 are formed into the fiber stripping holes 16 after the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 are folded; the diameter of the fiber stripping hole 16 is designed to be larger than the outer diameter of the fiber core and smaller than the outer diameter of the coating, so that when the optical fiber is pulled upwards, the coating is stripped by the cutting edge of the blade, and the fiber core is pulled out from the fiber stripping hole 16 without damage; when the cutting edge of the annular structure is stripped from the coating, the fiber core is only subjected to radial force, the radial force is balanced, and the fiber core is not easy to pull.
In order to conveniently apply force to the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 so as to be opened or closed, a spring 30 is connected between the top cover 6 and the bottom case 4, the top cover 6 is connected to the bottom case 4 through the spring 30, and the spring 30 can deform along the depth direction of the bottom case 4; the bottom surface of the top cover 6 is provided with a pulling piece 28, the pulling piece 28 is arranged obliquely downwards relative to the horizontal plane, and the pulling piece 28 is arranged obliquely downwards towards the fiber stripping hole 16. When the top cover 6 is pressed downwards, the poking piece 28 applies force to pull out (or open) the first blade body 24 or/and the second blade body 26 outwards; after the fiber is inserted, the force of pressing down the top cover 6 is cancelled, the top cover 6 is rebounded and restored under the action of the reverse elastic force accumulated by the spring 30, and the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 are folded, so that the fiber stripping hole 16 clamps the optical fiber.
In the technical scheme of the embodiment, in order to prop open the blade 14 more stably, two paddles 28 are arranged on the bottom surface of the top cover 6, and the paddles 28 are symmetrically arranged with the fiber through hole 8 as a center; the two paddles 28 simultaneously apply force to respectively outwardly pull the first and second blade bodies 24 and 26.
In the technical solution of this embodiment, in order to enable the top cover 6 to be stably reset, so that the top cover 6 will not deviate from the correct position (i.e. the fiber penetrating hole 8 and the fiber peeling hole 16 are coaxially disposed) in the resetting process, a guide sleeve 32 vertically disposed is disposed in the bottom case 4, and the body of the spring is disposed in the guide sleeve 32, and two ends of the body of the spring are respectively connected to the top cover 6 and the bottom case 4; the guide sleeve 32 is used for restraining the vertical deformation of the spring 30, so that the top cover 6 is reset in a rebound manner along the vertical direction, and the fiber penetrating hole 8 is always coaxially arranged with the fiber stripping hole 16.
Example two
The embodiment provides a method for removing an optical fiber coating, which uses the optical fiber coating removing device with the structure, and comprises the following steps:
(1) Pressing the top cover 6 downwards, driving the pulling piece 28 to outwards prop open the first blade body 24 or/and the second blade body 26, so that the aperture of the fiber stripping hole 16 is larger than the outer diameter of the optical fiber;
(2) The optical fiber to be cleaned of the coating extends downwards into the bottom box 4 from the fiber through hole 8, and is inserted into the fiber slot 18 from the spread fiber stripping hole 16;
(3) Releasing the top cover 6, and returning the top cover 6 under the action of the reverse elastic force accumulated by the spring 30 to drive the poking piece 28 to rise, wherein the first blade body 24 and the second blade body 26 are folded to enable the fiber stripping hole 16 with the aperture smaller than the outer diameter of the optical fiber to clamp the optical fiber;
(4) Pulling the clamped optical fiber upwards, and stripping the coating on the surface of the fiber core by a blade in the fiber stripping hole 16, wherein the bare fiber core is pulled out of the fiber stripping hole 8;
(5) The cleaning block 10 cleans the surface of the core as it is pulled through the through-hole 8.
The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.