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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:
Jan. 11, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ; F27B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65502 ; 65385 ; 65391 ; 65392 ; 65413 ; 65414 ; 65421 ; 65378 ; 65485 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for producing an optical fiber porous glass preform using the VAD method which can stably produce a high quality optical fiber porous glass preform, wherein a target bar is only rotatably supported by a chuck and is not pulled upward, a lower tip of a soot body is detected by a laser and a photodetector, and a core burner and a cladding burner is lowered in response to the result detected. A tip position detecting drive and burners are synchronizingly lowered while the deposit of porous glass grows at the lower portion of the target bar.