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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gervin Ruegenberg, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/255 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/255 ;
Abstract
Two incipiently fused fiber ends are fused to one another by being pushed one inside the other in a longitudinal direction beyond the end face contact site by a variable amount, which is increased in proportion to the greater extent of the poorer quality of the end face as compared to the desired shape of the end face.