Automatisiertes System zur Montage und Inspektion optischer Stecker

• Main Authors: SASAKURA, KUNIHIKO, NAGAYAMA, AKIRA, OGUCHI, SIGEMITU, YOSHIZAWA, TAKASHI, SAITOH, TADAO
• Format: Patent
• Language: German
• Published: 27.06.2002
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: COMBINED OPERATIONS; MACHINE TOOLS; MEASURING; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; TESTING; TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES ORSTRUCTURES; TESTING STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS

An automatic assembly and inspection system for optical connectors is provided, which is highly reliable and which can produce economical and highly-effective optical cords or cables with optical connectors. The automatic assembly and inspection system for optical connectors comprises a pallet (15) for installing an optical cord; a transfer mechanism (12) for transferring the pallet; modules (2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11) for performing various processes for assembling an optical connector with the optical cord installed on the pallet which is transferred by the transfer mechanism, said various processes including one or more of the processes such as required-length cutting, pre-processing, cleaning, insertion, curing, polishing, polished surface inspection, final assembling, optical performance evaluation, and stamping, and each of the modules having a common combining mechanism and a common communication means with respect to the transfer mechanism; and a system controller (1) for performing supervised control for the transfer mechanism and the modules based on parameters which indicate specifications for assembly and inspection of the optical connector.