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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2003
Applicants:
Kenji Kuwahara, Tokyo, JP;
Takuro Miya, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Kenji Kuwahara, Tokyo, JP;
Takuro Miya, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to improving the yield in fiber terminating processing, and to preventing the occurrence of transmission loss due to stress concentration at an optical fiber bend or due to variations in ambient temperature. In one exemplary embodiment, a channel is sandwiched between adhesive layers and an optical fiber is passed through the channel.