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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Vascomed Gmbh, Binzen, DE;
Inventors:
Stephan Fandrey, Affoltern am Albis, CH;
Andreas Bitzer, Zurich, CH;
Assignee:
VascoMed GmbH, Binzen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/34 (2006.01); G01L 1/24 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 1/246 (2013.01); A61B 5/0084 (2013.01); A61B 5/6885 (2013.01); A61B 18/1492 (2013.01);
Abstract
A fiber-optic force sensor, comprising an FBG fiber that has a force sensor region, to which bracing means to eliminate or decouple laterally effective forces and bending moments are assigned in such a way that the force sensor has a predominantly single-axis response characteristic to detect merely the magnitude of a force acting axially in the fiber direction.