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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:
May. 15, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Laszlo Huebscher, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Carmen Lanzetta, Hatboro, PA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9620 ;
Abstract
An insert or sleeve is fabricated from a glass-like material as a mica-filled glass and is of a longitudinal tubular configuration having a flat front surface with an aperture for accommodating a glass optical fiber. The aperture is coextensive with a fiber accommodating channel in said insert. The insert is surrounded and anchored into an outer plastic ferrule and a fiber when accommodated in said channel is broken at said surface which surface and fiber face are then polished to assure an optically smooth and polished fiber face which is free from debris damage during polishing.