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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:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
James P Barry, Charlton, MA (US);
David J Guerra, Putnam, CT (US);
David V Payeur, Southbridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Karl Strorz GmbH & Co., Tuttlingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385115 ; 385117 ;
Abstract
A lightguide including a bundle of optical fibers, and a sheath surrounding said bundle. The sheath is a stiffly flexible tube which has an uncut length adjacent to one of its ends, and a helical cut through its wall extending away from the uncut length. The bundle is held to the uncut length, and fits loosely in the cut length, the fibers being free from one another in the uncut length.