Optical waveguides – Optical fiber bundle – Transition between geometric shapes
Patent
1995-08-25
1996-08-27
Lee, John D.
Optical waveguides
Optical fiber bundle
Transition between geometric shapes
385120, 385901, 362 32, G02B 606
Patent
active
055509460
ABSTRACT:
A modular fiber optic light line unit provides a uniform linear beam of illumination. A number of these modular units can be butted together end to end to create a long, seamless line of uniform strip lighting. The unit has a housing in which a distal portion of the fiber optic bundle fans out so that the termini of the fibers are arrayed in a single continuous fiber row at a distal face plate of the housing. The ends of the row are flush with end edges of the distal face plate. In one embodiment the housing has first and second halves that sandwich the fiber termini, and there are respective sawtooth or similar recesses that each hold a respective fiber end or terminus. The housing can be anodized aluminum, and the optical fibers can be polymer fibers, for example with a diameter of 0.030 inches.
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Muehlemann Michael M.
Noble J. Donald
Illumination Technologies Inc.
Lee John D.
Palmer Phan T. H.
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