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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:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Warren Hale Lewis, New Port, PA (US);
Robert Nelson Fair, Jr, York, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 18 ; 385 16 ; 385 47 ;
Abstract
An optical switch (1) has a refractive element (3) between a reflector (5) and multiple optical waveguides (6), the refractive element (3) being pivotable to different positions to optically couple different sets of the waveguides (6), the reflector (5) being received on a reflector holder (7), the reflector holder (7) engaging spaced apart springs (9), and the springs (9) being compressed to aim the focal point of the reflector (5) at a precise position in front of the waveguides (6).