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Apparatus for the positioning of ends of flexible light-conducting elements

US4759598A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Jenoptik Jena GmbH · DE

Inventors

Joachim Mohr · Jena, DE
Helmut Becker-Ross · Berlin, DE
Karl Brueckner · Boulder, US
Hans Fischer · Le Grand-Saconnex, CH
Guenther Moebius · Jena, DE
Winfried Quillfeldt · Shipka, BG

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 24, 1986
Grant date	Jul 26, 1988
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 24, 2006

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B6/3692
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus for the positioning of ends of flexible light-conducting elements with the object of attaining a high position reproducibility of the fiber ends in an effective large-scale production technique, having the object of developing a technical solution so that it can be manufactured with a production technology in accordance with the accuracy requirements, so that a multitude of light-conducting fibers having defined positions are exactly fixedly correlated to defined positions. According to the invention, there are provided to one another essentially parallel thin surface elements which are secured at a distance and form an element package which is divided into two adjacent areas and within each one of the two areas there is provided at least an approximately equal distribution of pierced openings for the light-conducting elements.

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