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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert A Wagner, Manchester, CT (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9620 ; 350 9625 ; 350 9629 ; 427163 ;
Abstract
An array of optical fibers is precisely positioned in channels in a head when liquid metal, such as tin-lead solder, is used. This is compared to irregular locating which is obtained with organic resins. A glass fiber is first ion plated with about 1.times.10.sup.-6 m of a metal such as nickel which is wetted by the solder. The fiber is placed loosely in a channel in a metal holder and solder is infiltrated. In an embodiment, strain on the glass fiber where it exits its holder channel is alleviated when the polymer jacket is also ion plated with metal and soldered to the holder.