The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jul. 12, 1994
Filed:
May. 28, 1993
Tsuneo Mori, Gunma, JP;
Kazuo Koya, Gunma, JP;
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An improvement is proposed for decreasing the variation in the coupling ratio of an optical fiber coupler after a heat shock test. In an optical fiber coupler which is an elongated intergral body formed by fusing a plural number of optical fibers side-by-side consisting of two straightly columnar parts and a biconical part therebetween formed by drawing and adhesively bonded to a reinforcing base with a coating layer of an adhesive therebetween, the improvement can be achieved by limiting the zone where the coating layer of an adhesive to the surface of each of the straightly columnar parts within a range from the boundary between the straightly columnar part and the biconical part to a point 8 mm apart from the boundary.