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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:
Oct. 24, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
John R Gentile, Frankfort, NY (US);
Assignee:
Laser Precision Corporation, Utica, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356 731 ;
Abstract
This application discloses a system in which a single optical time domain reflector is used to monitor a plurality of cables. In one embodiment two lasers having different wavelengths are separately fired into different cables, and the returning signals are fed into the appropriate port of a wavelength dependent coupler. In another embodiment, each laser simultaneouly checks two cables having different lengths, the length difference permitting identification of the cable in which a fault has occurred.