MONITORING AIR PRESSURE AND FLOW IN A FIBER CLEANING DEVICE

Abstract: a device for cleaning an end face of an optical fiber may receive a first pressure signal from a first pressure sensor, wherein the device includes a pneumatic circuit, wherein the pneumatic circuit includes: one or more circuit components, the first pressure sensor, and a second pressure sensor. the device may receive a second pressure signal from the second pressure sensor. the device may determine, based on the first pressure signal and the second pressure signal, whether a pressure difference across a circuit component, of the one or more circuit components, satisfies a threshold. the device may perform, based on the pressure difference across the circuit component not satisfying the threshold, one or more actions.

Inventor(s): Gordon MacKAY, Kevin CASSADY, Peter KRIOFSKE, William Shawn ROSENAU, Brad BASLER

CPC Classification: B08B5/02 (Cleaning by the force of jets, e.g. blowing-out cavities {(airguns or nozzles per se )})

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