Thomson-csf

Jean Bouygues

Andre Jacques

Jacques Dubos

Rene Gerard

This invention provides an optical fibers bundles connector comprising a male member and a female member which can be plugged into one another. In one of these members is included a single fiber of the same diameter as the bundles which are to be connected, which distributes the luminous flux issuing from the emitter bundle to the receiver bundle. An embodiment having the external dimensions of 'Socapex 072 NX 65' electrical connectors is specially described.

Optical fibers bundles connector

A flat rectangular workpiece, such as a photographic plate in a photo-repeating apparatus designed to produce integrated-circuit masks, laterally overhangs a platform of a carriage which is slidable on a mobile supporting table. The platform has two end stops and a side stop defining the relative position of the workpiece thereon, the overhanging edges of the workpiece entering between upper and lower jaws of three grippers -- one on one side and two on the other -- when the carriage is slid into a working position. The lower gripper jaws, constituted by spring-loaded plungers normally held down by suction, are then released to lift the workpiece off the platform while clamping it against the overlying upper jaws. Manual retraction of a stop screw, bearing upon a fixed abutment on the supporting table, causes a limited further advance of the carriage under the force of a carriage-borne magnet coacting with the abutment; this movement results in withdrawal of the side stop, through a camming mechanism, even as the end stops disengage the clamped workpiece so that the latter thereafter has no contact with the carriage.

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Paris, France

Jean Bouygues