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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2018
Made IN Space, Inc., Moffett Field, CA (US);
Jan Clawson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert White, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nate Pickslay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Snyder, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Geoffrey York Powers, Richmond, TX (US);
Noah Paul-Gin, San Francisco, CA (US);
MADE IN SPACE, INC., Moffett Field, CA (US);
Abstract
A sensor system to provide data for use to control manufacture of an optical fiber in microgravity including a diameter sensor to monitor a diameter of a fiber drawn from a preform material, a tension sensor to monitor tension of the fiber as the fiber is pulled from the preform material to a storage device and a controller in communication with at least one of the diameter sensor and the tension sensor to evaluate sensor data to determine at least one of a speed and rate at which the fiber is pulled from the preform material.