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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:
Feb. 12, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Narinderjeet S Rayit, Hayes, GB;
Assignee:
Telephone Cables Limited, , GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156158 ; 156256 ; 156296 ; 350 9615 ; 350 9621 ;
Abstract
A coupler for at least two optical fibres in which at least one port is redundant, e.g. a 1.times.2 or a 1.times.3 coupler, is formed by first terminating the fibre end which is to form that redundant port, and then coupling the fibres e.g. by fusion.