WO1994009944A1 - Machine de polissage de surfaces terminales - Google Patents
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- WO1994009944A1 WO1994009944A1 PCT/JP1993/001552 JP9301552W WO9409944A1 WO 1994009944 A1 WO1994009944 A1 WO 1994009944A1 JP 9301552 W JP9301552 W JP 9301552W WO 9409944 A1 WO9409944 A1 WO 9409944A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
- B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
- B24B19/00—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group
- B24B19/22—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group characterised by a special design with respect to properties of the material of non-metallic articles to be ground
- B24B19/226—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group characterised by a special design with respect to properties of the material of non-metallic articles to be ground of the ends of optical fibres
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- G—PHYSICS
- G02—OPTICS
- G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
- G02B6/00—Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
- G02B6/24—Coupling light guides
- G02B6/36—Mechanical coupling means
- G02B6/38—Mechanical coupling means having fibre to fibre mating means
- G02B6/3807—Dismountable connectors, i.e. comprising plugs
- G02B6/3833—Details of mounting fibres in ferrules; Assembly methods; Manufacture
- G02B6/3863—Details of mounting fibres in ferrules; Assembly methods; Manufacture fabricated by using polishing techniques
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- the present invention relates to a polishing apparatus for polishing the tip of a fuel rule to which an optical fiber is fixed to a convex spherical surface covering an optical fiber and an end face.
- the return light due to the reflection at the connection point of the optical connector that is, the fiber butt end face, causes a problem of increasing noise and noise in ultra-high-speed communication using a laser diode.
- the ferrule end face is processed to have a convex spherical surface centered on the fiber, and these faces are brought into close contact with each other without an air layer at the time of facing connection (Physical Contact) PC End face forming technology is widely used.
- a thin polishing sheet is attached to the upper surface of a flat plate made of a soft elastic material to form a polished surface, and the tip surface of the ferrule to be polished is pressed against the polished plate. Move the robot in a circular locus. At this time, the polishing plate elastically deforms and bends, and by utilizing this bending phenomenon, a convex spherical surface is formed simultaneously on the ferrule and the fiber end face.
- the movement mechanism between the sample and the polishing plate has a significant effect on the finishing accuracy of the end face and the polishing time, so the polishing plate is a well-known machine for polishing parallel-plane workpieces. Is used.
- the ferrule which is a workpiece, is kept stationary, and the planetary gear and the cloud-forming motor simultaneously rotate and revolve the polishing plate, thereby bringing the rule into contact with the polishing plate and forming a uniform trajectory. A drawing big movement is given.
- the rule becomes a convex sphere with the desired fiber as the vertex, At the same time, processing can be performed efficiently.
- the planetary gear is used for the revolving mechanism, even if the revolving motor is stopped, if the rotation shaft is given a rotation, the planetary gear rotates while meshing along the stopped revolving motor gear. As a result, the polishing machine orbits. For this reason, there is a problem in that setting the optimum rotation and revolution speeds such as finishing accuracy and processing time in the polishing conditions is restricted.
- the plurality of workpieces 133 fixed to the support plate are required to make accurate vertical contact with the polishing plate to obtain a convex spherical surface having a desired fiber as a vertex.
- the support plate 13 1 to which the sample is to be added is fixed to the support A via the press-contact member S, so that the press-contact member S is fixed to the hook of the support plate 13 1 and the screw 13
- the vertical setting error due to 6 always occurs, and the ferrule is abutted diagonally.
- the finished surface of the ferrule slightly deviates from the convex spherical surface having the apex at the center of the ideal fiber, which has a large effect on the connector connection performance.
- an object of the present invention is to provide a polishing machine capable of independently setting the number of rotations of the polishing machine's rotation and revolution in order to solve such a conventional problem.
- each of a plurality of polishing sample ends, A motion mechanism that allows the polishing machine to rest and abut on a polishing machine on which a soft material and a polishing sheet are adhered while always applying the same processing pressure to the polishing machine, and to rotate the polishing machine independently of revolution and rotation.
- the polishing disk is elastically deformed and bent, and this bending phenomenon and the adoption of a rubbing motion in which the sample draws a uniform trajectory allow each sample to have a convex spherical surface with the fiber as the vertex. It was decided to process it.
- a fixing jig board for fixing a plurality of rod-shaped members, such as fuyuru, to which fibers are fixed, a support mechanism for supporting the fixing jig board and vertically abutting the rod-shaped members on the polishing machine, and a rod-shaped member.
- a drive mechanism for causing the polishing machines to independently rotate and revolve is provided in a multiple end-face polishing machine equipped with a plurality of single units composed of a polishing machine provided with a polishing member to be polished.
- a drive mechanism for causing the polishing machines to independently rotate and revolve is provided.
- the ferrule fixing jig board In order to make multiple ferrules abut vertically on the polishing machine accurately, the ferrule fixing jig board must be pre-aligned with a polishing machine with flatness by using a pin point bearing mechanism.
- FIGS. 1 to 5 An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5 for a single-unit end face polishing machine.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view of the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the present invention.
- a first rotation transmission board 2 that is rotated about the rotation axis by a rotation motor 1 is fixed to the shaft of the motor 1, and a plurality of first rotation transmission boards 2 are concentrically arranged on the rotation center axis of the first rotation transmission board 2.
- Pin 3 is fixed.
- the rotation transmission board 4 rotatably inserted into the first pin 3 is provided with a hole at the same center position, and the rotation transmission board 4 is inserted into the rotation itself so as to correspond to each hole.
- the second pin 5 is fixed to the second rotation transmission board 6.
- a revolving power transmission shaft 11 is provided at the center of the rotating shaft through a pair of gears 8 and 9 that are rotated by a revolving motor 7 with a bearing cylinder 10 as a guide.
- the orbital transmission shaft 11 is provided with a support hole 12 that penetrates a position eccentric from the center of rotation by the same amount of eccentricity as the rotation transmission board.
- a rotation shaft 13 for rotation is rotatably inserted into the support hole 12, and one end of the rotation shaft 13 is fixed to the second rotation transmission plate 6, and the other end is connected to the polishing plate 15 via a coupling member 14. Is joined to.
- a polishing member (not shown) is provided on the polishing board 15, and a bar-like member 16 such as a futur whose end face is polished is in contact with the polishing member.
- the rod-shaped member 16 is detachably fixed to a plurality of fixing jig boards 17, and presses the polishing board 15 with a predetermined force by a holding shaft 19.
- the fixed jig board 17 is prevented from rotating by the rotation stop pin 20.
- Multiple weights are provided for the support mechanism so that any value can be selected (not shown).
- FIG. 3 is a plan view for explaining the gravity action of the present invention
- FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line AA ′ of FIG.
- the orbital transmission shaft 11 is rotated about the Y axis by the orbital motor 7 via a pair of gears 8 and 9.
- the center of the polishing plate 1 5 this time, the shaft 'Y due to the' axis from the Y axis offset Y only e 2 moves in a radius of e z about the Y axis.
- Chikaraku the-rotating rotary shaft 1 3 in this case the revolution transmission shaft 1 1 are present, as shown in FIG.
- the rotation transmission board 4 rotates around the first pin three times in the same phase as the rotation of the revolution transmission shaft 11. Therefore, even if the first rotation transmission board 2 is stopped or is rotating, the rotation of the revolution transmission ⁇ 11 is not restricted.
- the first rotation transmission board 2 is rotated by the rotation motor 1, but the first pin 3 is located on the concentric circle of the rotation transmission board 2. So it follows the same trajectory around the Y axis.
- -Rotating rotary shaft 1 3 is e 2 by a rotation shaft offset from the first rotation transmission shaft, but the second pin 5 located on the concentric circle of the second rotation transfer plate 6 maintaining the eccentricity e Since the rotation is transmitted through the rotation transmission board 4 as it is, the rotation of the same rotation speed as that of the first rotation transmission board 2 is transmitted to the rotation rotating shaft 13.
- FIG. 5 is an example of the locus of the bar-shaped member 16 left on the polishing board 15, which shows that the polishing member is used effectively.
- the polishing object eliminates mechanical imperfections that cannot be avoided in assembling the polishing machine, that is, the problem of parallelism between the polishing machine and the ruler support mechanism 18. Can be done.
- the polishing machines are brought into contact with irregular lengths.
- the above-mentioned pin-pivot coupling method has a function of absorbing the polishing motion due to the irregular length.
- a multi-unit end face polisher equipped with a plurality of units having a multi-unit polisher function subordinately in the same plane is also suitable for polishing a large number of polished materials. Needless to say, it is effective.
- FIG. 1 is a plan view of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a plan view for explaining the operation of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line A-A ′ of FIG. Fig. 5 shows an example of the locus that the bar member left on the polishing machine.
- FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a conventional technique. Industrial applicability
- the main feature of the present invention is a polishing machine capable of mass-producing with high precision for finishing the end face of a fuyuru with a convex spherical surface with a fiber as a vertex.
- An important point of the present invention is that first, the end faces of the ferrules, which are a plurality of polishing samples, are brought into contact with and fixed on a polishing plate on which a polishing sheet is adhered with a soft material to which the same processing pressure always acts, and polishing is performed.
- a motion mechanism that can rotate the disk independently of revolving and rotating, the lapping motion of the sample drawing a uniform trajectory on the polishing disk allows multiple samples to be obtained. This makes it possible to easily process a convex sphere with the vertex at the top.
- a multi-unit end face polishing machine having a plurality of single units is often employed, so that the same process can be processed simultaneously by a plurality of units, or a rough process can be performed.
- the great advantage comes from being able to allocate and process each process such as finishing, polishing, etc. to each unit specializing in polishing.
- the radius of curvature is selected by adopting a soft elastic material having the optimum hardness.
- the sample In order to form a convex spherical surface on a plane inclined at an angle with the end face of the fuirule, the sample must be preliminarily supported by a fuirul support member. It is self-evident that this can be achieved by setting the mounting angle of the rule to the desired angle.
- the end face polishing machine according to the present invention is most suitable for forming a convex spherical surface of a fixed fiber, and has great industrial value.
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| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| EP93923649A EP0627280A4 (en) | 1992-10-27 | 1993-10-27 | ENSURFACE POLISHING MACHINE. |
| JP51088694A JP3544977B2 (ja) | 1992-10-27 | 1993-10-27 | 端面研磨機 |
| US08/256,317 US5516328A (en) | 1992-10-27 | 1993-10-27 | End surface polishing machine |
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| JP28867692 | 1992-10-27 | ||
| JP4/288676 | 1992-10-27 |
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| EP (1) | EP0627280A4 (ja) |
| JP (1) | JP3544977B2 (ja) |
| WO (1) | WO1994009944A1 (ja) |
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| EP0862969A1 (en) * | 1997-03-06 | 1998-09-09 | Seiko Instruments Inc. | end-face lapping apparatus and method of lapping |
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