Optical waveguides – Optical fiber bundle – Fiber bundle plate
Patent
1992-11-17
1994-03-15
Healy, Brian
Optical waveguides
Optical fiber bundle
Fiber bundle plate
385115, 385147, 385901, 362 30, 362 31, 362 32, 40546, 40547, 156158, 156162, 156163, 156169, 156173, 156174, G02B 600, F21V 704, G09F 1318, B65H 6902
Patent
active
052952169
ABSTRACT:
An improved fiber optic panel having a desired illumination pattern is assembled from at least two partial panels, each comprising a plurality of fully terminated parallel fibers. Two or more such partial arrays are combined to fabricate a optical fiber substrate having an arbitrary illumination pattern. The non-illuminated fiber lengths extending from the individual fiber terminations are removed before the two partial arrays are assembled, thus further enhancing the efficiency of the device. In a preferred embodiment the fibers of each partial array have a center-to-center spacing slightly greater than twice the fiber diameters, and the fibers of the two partial arrays are intermeshed to form a closely packed parallel array of fibers in which a fully terminated shorter fiber is located between two longer fibers.
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"Polyglo 2", Drawing Number ME-13-00188, Poly-Optical Products, Inc., Santa Ana Calif. Aug. 21, 1992.
Healy Brian
Poly-Optical Products, Ltd.
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