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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1999

Filed:

Nov. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:

Masami Sugata, Tokyo, JP;

Eiichi Ishino, Tokyo, JP;

Yuzo Sato, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385147 ; 162238 ;
Abstract

To enable extraction of one specific optical fiber from a plurality of optical fibers at remote sites. An environment variable apparatus is mounted to provide a temperature difference at a predetermined position of an optical fiber. An environment variable apparatus is mounted to detect scattered light of light incident on the optical fiber through one end thereof so as to extract a target optical fiber from a large member of optical fibers. Further, synchronous devices are mounted to transmit from the environment variable apparatus to the extracting apparatus a message in that the temperature difference is given to the optical fiber, and transmit from the extracting apparatus to the environment variable apparatus a decision signal as to whether or not the optical fiber is to be extracted.


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