Background technology
Optical fiber is to utilize light to transmit the fibre waveguide of data, and conventionally, optical fiber is used with the form of optical cable, and which floor protection structure fiber outer layer is coated with, and the cable after being coated is optical cable.At present, as shown in Figure 1, optical fiber 1 comprises the fibre core 11 that is located at innermost layer to the structure of optical fiber, and the periphery of described fibre core 11 is coated with covering 12, primary coating layer 13 and secondary coat 14 from inside to outside successively.Wherein, primary coating layer and secondary coat are two kinds of esters of acrylic acids that add heterogeneity, optical fiber is played to different protective effects.Specifically, the primary coating layer of optical fiber is generally the material of selecting low modulus, high resiliency, lower glass transition temperatures, and its Main Function is that protection fibre core surface is without prejudice in operation and use procedure.The secondary coat of optical fiber is generally the material of selecting high-modulus, low elasticity, high glass-transition temperature, and its Main Function is that fibre core is carried out to mechanical protection, to guarantee that optical fiber is not subject to the mechanical damage of external environment condition in processing, transportation, use procedure.
Optical fiber all needs to test before coming into operation, and at present, in existing optical fiber test equipment, is that operator directly adopts blade to remove cutting optical fibre, after blade cuts, cut to optical fiber is left intact, and directly takes away and tests.But operator directly exists following defect with blade cuts optical fiber: 1, operation is very inconvenient, and the coat of blade cuts optical fiber is out easy to damage, and even can damage fibre core; 2, in cutting process, can not the cut direction of strict guarantee blade and the axis of optical fiber perpendicular, thereby cause the fiber end face cutting out to have an angle of inclination, affect the test of optical fiber parameter; 3, the bad control of cutting dynamics, firmly too little meeting causes can't cut optical fiber, and firmly too conference is easily flattened optical fiber, makes fibre strain, the out-of-flatness of fiber cut end face, and then affects the test parameter of optical fiber; The length of the optical fiber 4, cutting is inconsistent, and after fiber cut, takes the position that need to readjust optical fiber while testing in testing apparatus, and then reduces testing efficiency and measuring accuracy; While 5, cutting, cutting force all concentrates on some positions of blade at every turn, and after long-time use, blade abrasion is serious, even there will be breach, affects cutting effect, often needs more allowing blade replacement; 6, there is very large potential safety hazard, easily injured in operating process.Artificial employing after blade cuts optical fiber, as shown in Figure 2, as can be seen from Figure 2, this end face is a non-circular end face to the fiber cut end face obtaining, and coat uneven thickness, optical fiber is out of shape.
Utility model content
The shortcoming of prior art in view of the above, another object of the present utility model is to provide a kind of optical fiber coating end face processing device that can guarantee that fiber cut face is smooth and can at utmost keep optical fiber self morphological character.
For achieving the above object, the utility model provides a kind of optical fiber coating end face processing device, comprises cutting equipment, firing equipment and for placing the fixture of optical fiber;
Described cutting equipment comprises the cutting pedestal of a carrying fixture, is provided with a knife rest that can move radially along optical fiber in described cutting pedestal, and a rotating blade is installed on this knife rest;
Described firing equipment comprises the heating base of a carrying fixture, and described heating base is provided with the bottoming hole that a facial expression fibre stretches into, and is provided with a heating plate for heating optical fiber in heating base.
Further, described firing equipment also comprises that a controller, a time relay and are positioned at the temp probe of heating base, and described heating plate, the time relay, temp probe are all connected with controller.
Further, described fixture comprises and is provided with the chuck body of carrying fine groove, is hinged with one and is positioned at the fine plate of pressure that carries fine groove top in described chuck body, and the lower surface of the fine plate of described pressure is provided with an elastic press that protrudes and contact with optical fiber downwards.
Preferably, described cutting pedestal one end offers a tank, is provided with a knife rest slide block that can move radially along optical fiber in described tank, and described knife rest is fixed on knife rest slide block.
Further, on the upper surface of described cutting pedestal, offer an opening arranging along knife rest moving direction, described blade edge protrudes upward from this opening, the both sides of described opening are respectively equipped with a lower elastic clamping pieces protruding upward, on described cutting pedestal, be also hinged with a cover plate, on the lower surface of described cover plate, be respectively equipped with downward protrusion and the upper elastic clamping pieces that is oppositely arranged with lower elastic clamping pieces.
Preferably, the end of described cover plate is provided with a projection to downward-extension, in described projection, be provided with a upper groove that Open Side Down, the low groove that offers an opening upwards and be oppositely arranged with upper groove on the upper surface of described cutting pedestal, is equipped with magnet in described upper groove, low groove.
Further, described blade is a circular shear blade.
Preferably, described blade is arranged on knife rest by a rotating shaft.
As mentioned above, the optical fiber coating end face processing device that the utility model relates to, has following beneficial effect:
In this optical fiber coating end face processing device, cutting equipment is when cutting optical fibre, described blade is tumbling-type cutting, make optic fibre force even, thereby can guarantee that fiber cut face is smooth, and the cutting mode of tumbling-type is little to optical fiber damage, and then can farthest keep optical fiber self morphological character, reduces the distortion of optical fiber; In addition, mode by firing equipment heating optical fiber cut surface is eliminated in cutting process, because optical fiber coating edge is subject to the micro-deformation that blade extruding produces, to recover the edge of optical fiber coating, farthest reduce the impact on test optical fiber parameter.
Embodiment
By particular specific embodiment, embodiment of the present utility model is described below, person skilled in the art scholar can understand other advantages of the present utility model and effect easily by the disclosed content of this instructions.
Notice, appended graphic the illustrated structure of this instructions, ratio, size etc., equal contents in order to coordinate instructions to disclose only, for person skilled in the art scholar, understand and read, not in order to limit the enforceable qualifications of the utility model, therefore the technical essential meaning of tool not, the adjustment of the modification of any structure, the change of proportionate relationship or size, do not affecting under the effect that the utility model can produce and the object that can reach, all should still drop on the technology contents that the utility model discloses and obtain in the scope that can contain.Simultaneously, in this instructions, quote as " on ", the term of D score, " left side ", " right side ", " centre " and " " etc., also only for ease of understanding of narrating, but not in order to limit the enforceable scope of the utility model, the change of its relativeness or adjustment, under without essence change technology contents, when being also considered as the enforceable category of the utility model.
The utility model provides a kind of optical fiber coating method for treating end face, comprises the following steps successively:
A, optical fiber 1 is fixed in a fixture 4;
B, described fixture 4 is placed on a cutting equipment 2 to the blade 23 tumbling-type cutting optical fibres 1 in described cutting equipment 2;
C, the optical fiber 1 after cutting off is placed on a firing equipment 3 to the cut surface of described firing equipment 3 heating optical fibers 1 together with fixture 4.
In this optical fiber coating method for treating end face, when cutting optical fibre 1, blade 23 in cutting equipment 2 is tumbling-type cutting, make optical fiber 1 stressed evenly, thereby can guarantee that fiber cut face is smooth, and the cutting mode of tumbling-type is little to optical fiber damage, and then can farthest keep optical fiber self morphological character, reduces the distortion of optical fiber; In addition, by the mode of heating optical fiber cut surface, eliminate in cutting process, because optical fiber coating edge is subject to the micro-deformation that blade 23 extruding produce, to recover the edge of optical fiber coating, farthest reduce the impact on test optical fiber parameter, the cut end face of the optical fiber 1 after tumbling-type cutting and heating as shown in Figure 3 successively.
Preferably, in described step C, firing equipment 3 is when the cut surface of heating optical fiber 1, should control heating-up temperature and heat time according to the material behavior of optical fiber coating, in the present embodiment, heating-up temperature is 40~70 ℃, and the heat time is 1~5S, farthest to recover to be extruded the edge of the optical fiber coating of distortion, and guarantee that it secondary deformation can not occur.
The utility model also provides a kind of optical fiber coating end face processing device, comprises cutting equipment 2, firing equipment 3 and for placing the fixture 4 of optical fiber 1.As shown in Figures 4 to 6, described cutting equipment 2 comprises the cutting pedestal 21 of a carrying fixture 4, is provided with a knife rest 22 that can move radially along optical fiber 1 in described cutting pedestal 21, and a rotating blade 23 is installed on this knife rest 22.During cutting, first optical fiber 1 is fixed in fixture 4, fixture 4 is placed on cutting pedestal 21 upper surfaces, promote forward knife rest 22, knife rest 22 band cutting blades 23 move forward together; The moment that blade 23 edges contact with optical fiber 1, under the effect of the friction force between blade 23 and optical fiber 1, blade 23 rotations, thus streak with rolling the optical fiber 1 fixing, to cut off optical fiber 1; In the cut process of optical fiber 1, because blade 23 is tumbling-type cutting, thereby make optic fibre force even, and then can guarantee that fiber cut face is smooth, and the cutting mode of tumbling-type is little to optical fiber damage, can farthest keep optical fiber self morphological character, reduces the distortion of optical fiber; In addition, tumbling-type cutting can also make blade 23 stressed evenly, to reduce the wear extent of blade 23, extends the serviceable life of blade 23, and blade 23 even wearing in cutting process, can not affect cutting effect because breach appears in blade 23.
In addition, in cutting process, because blade 23 is just starting the moment of cutting optical fibre 1, the edge of optical fiber coating can be subject to blade 23 extruding and produce micro-deformation, therefore the utility model also provides a kind of firing equipment 3, as shown in Figure 7, this firing equipment 3 comprises the heating base 31 of a carrying fixture 4, described heating base 31 is provided with the bottoming hole 32 that a facial expression fibre 1 stretches into, and is provided with a heating plate for heating optical fiber 1 in heating base 31; After optical fiber 1 cuts off, the optical fiber 1 that carries out test section is still fixed in fixture 4, now fixture 4 is moved to heating base 31 together with optical fiber to be detected 1 from cutting pedestal 21, and the cutting end face of optical fiber 1 is filled in bottoming hole 32, open the button 33 on heating base 31 upper surfaces, heating by heating plate is with the cutting end face of heating optical fiber 1, thereby eliminate the distortion at optical fiber coating edge, make the Edge restoration of optical fiber coating to himself form, farthest reduce the impact on test optical fiber parameter.
Further, described firing equipment 3 also comprises that a controller, a time relay and are positioned at the temp probe of heating base 31, described heating plate, the time relay, temp probe are all connected with controller, and in the present embodiment, described temp probe is a thermistor.During button 33 on opening firing equipment 3, heating plate heating power, the time relay starts timing, to control heating-up temperature and the heat time of fiber cut end face according to the material character of optical fiber coating.Preferably, described heating plate is a ceramic heating flake, this ceramic heating flake has the advantages such as intensification is rapid, temperature compensation is fast, power density is large, heating-up temperature is high, the thermal efficiency is high, homogeneous heating, life-span length, therefore after using, can improve the efficiency of heating surface of firing equipment 3 integral body, and energy-conserving and environment-protective.
In the present embodiment, described blade 23 is a circular shear blade, and the xsect of this circular shear blade parallels with the xsect of optical fiber 1, and as shown in Figure 8 and Figure 9, and this circular shear blade is arranged on described knife rest 22 by a rotating shaft 28.It is suitable with fixture 4 and for the first locating slot 214 of placing clamp 4 that described cutting pedestal 21 is provided with, see Fig. 4, described heating base 31 is provided with fixture 4 suitable, and the second locating slot 311 for placing clamp 4, see Fig. 7, by said structure, can very quickly and easily fixture 4 be positioned on cutting pedestal 21 or heating base 31, take the position of fixture 4 while guaranteeing each cutting or heating is a fixing position, thereby guarantees the consistance of each detection fiber.
Preferably, see Fig. 4, described cutting pedestal 21 one end offer a tank 211, are provided with a knife rest slide block 24 that can move radially along optical fiber 1 in described tank 211, described knife rest 22 is fixed on knife rest slide block 24, by follow rest slide block 24, is carried out follow rest 22 and is located at the blade 23 on knife rest 22.In addition, on the upper surface of described cutting pedestal 21, offer an opening 212 arranging along knife rest 22 moving directions, this opening 212 is connected with tank 211, described blade 23 edges protrude upward from this opening 212, the both sides of described opening 212 are respectively equipped with a lower elastic clamping pieces 25 protruding upward, on described cutting pedestal 21, be also hinged with a cover plate 26, on the lower surface of described cover plate 26, be respectively equipped with downward protrusion, and the upper elastic clamping pieces 27 being oppositely arranged with lower elastic clamping pieces 25, when cutting optical fibre 1, upper elastic clamping pieces 27 and lower elastic clamping pieces 25 are fixed optical fiber 1, to prevent optical fiber 1 phenomenon that is moved in cutting process, guarantee the quality of cutting end face.In addition, in the structure of above-mentioned cutting equipment 2, described blade 23 is arranged on the inside of cutting equipment 2, and during use, operator can not hurt by blade, and then eliminates safe hidden trouble.Preferably, the end of described cover plate 26 is provided with a projection 261 to downward-extension, in described projection 261, be provided with a upper groove that Open Side Down 262, the low groove 213 that offers an opening upwards on the upper surface of described cutting pedestal 21 and be oppositely arranged with upper groove 262, is equipped with magnet in described upper groove 262, low groove 213.During cutting optical fibre 1, cover cover plate 26, the magnet in upper groove 262 and the magnet in low groove 213 hold, thereby optical fiber 1 is fixed; Promote forward knife rest slide block 24, because knife rest 22 is fixed on knife rest slide block 24, thus by follow rest slide block 24, carry out follow rest 22 and be located at the blade 23 on knife rest 22, and then tumbling-type cutting optical fibre 1.
Further, see Figure 10 and Figure 11, described fixture 4 comprises the chuck body 41 that is provided with year fine groove 42, in described chuck body 41, be hinged with one and be positioned at the fine plate 43 of pressure that carries fine groove 42 tops, the lower surface of the fine plate 43 of described pressure is provided with an elastic press 44 that protrudes and contact with optical fiber 1 downwards, and the lower surface of described year fine groove 42 is all parallel with the surface of cutting pedestal 21 with upper surface.Preferably, within described year, fine groove 42 is that a V-arrangement carries fine groove, so that place optical fiber 1.Described V-arrangement carries fine groove and runs through fixture 4 along the length direction of fixture 4, and after optical fiber 1 is placed on to V-arrangement and carries in fine groove, optical fiber 1 is positioned at the bottom that V-arrangement carries fine groove; Cover and press fine plate 43, press the upper surface of fine plate 43 to flush with the upper surface of fixture 4, and the lower surface of elastic press 44 is pressed on optical fiber 1, thereby optical fiber 1 is fixed in fixture 4.In addition, fixture 4 is placed on after the first locating slot 214 on cutting pedestal 21, carry the length direction (namely carrying the length direction of fine groove 42 inner fibers 1) of fine groove 42 and the moving direction of knife rest 22 perpendicular, thereby the mobile cut direction of the axis of strict guarantee optical fiber 1 and blade 23 is perpendicular, the fiber cut face that assurance cuts out is without angle of inclination, and then the accuracy of detection of raising optical fiber.After having cut, directly optical fiber 1 is moved to firing equipment 3 place's heating optical fiber cutting end faces together with fixture 4, after having heated, again optical fiber 1 is moved to testing apparatus place together with fixture 4 and gather also measuring fiber cutting end face, the also method of detection fiber 1 cutting end face that gathers is shown in Chinese utility model patent application CN103115568A.In addition, optical fiber is from being cut to the process of detection, because the first locating slot 214 on cutting pedestal 21 is fixed to the distance of blade 23, be that fixture 4 is put into after the first locating slot 214, the front end face of fixture 4 is fixed to the distance of blade 23, distance between the front end face of fixture 4 and blade 23 is exactly the length that the required fiber end face of testing apparatus stretches out the front end face of fixture 4, during each cutting, this segment distance is all fixed, so it is all consistent guaranteeing to cut out the length that optical fiber 1 stretches out fixture 4 front end faces at every turn, this length be also simultaneously in firing equipment 3 on heating base 31 the second locating slot 311 to the distance between heating plate, that is to say, optical fiber is from cutting to heating, from being heated to the process of detection, do not need to readjust the position of optical fiber 1, to improve testing efficiency, and can also control to a certain extent the impact of human factor on optical fiber 1 coat measuring end surface result.
In sum, the optical fiber coating method for treating end face that the utility model relates to and device adopt the mode of tumbling-type cutting and heat treated to process optical fiber, simple to operation quick, and cutting end face is smooth, optical fiber damage is little, farthest keep the morphological character of optical fiber self, thereby human factor is controlled to minimum to the tests affect of optical fiber parameter afterwards.So the utility model has effectively overcome various shortcoming of the prior art and tool high industrial utilization.
Above-described embodiment is illustrative principle of the present utility model and effect thereof only, but not for limiting the utility model.Any person skilled in the art scholar all can, under spirit of the present utility model and category, modify or change above-described embodiment.Therefore, have in technical field under such as and conventionally know that the knowledgeable modifies or changes not departing from all equivalences that complete under spirit that the utility model discloses and technological thought, must be contained by claim of the present utility model.