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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. 03, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/38 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/38 ;
Abstract
An optical fiber connecting method and apparatus in which optical communication is performed in a uni-core bidirectional system as optical crosstalk is prevented from occurring. To this end, an optical fiber connector includes a refractive index matching member and an optical fiber connecting unit . The refractive index matching member has a refractive index substantially equivalent to that of the cores of optical fibers . The optical fiber connecting unit interconnects the optical fibers in a state in which end faces of the optical fibers are contacted with a refractive index matching member interposed between the end faces of the optical fibers