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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:
Dec. 02, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ; C03C / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65384 ; 65378 ; 65386 ; 65413 ; 65427 ; 264124 ;
Abstract
This process for producing an optical waveguide comprises a step of sintering a glass fine-particle layer to form a upper cladding layer, and a step of controlling a refractive index of the upper cladding layer by changing a temperature decreasing rate when the glass layer is cooled down to the room temperature.