Configuration for an optical device interface

US6625382B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Francotyp-Postalia GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ulrich Hetzer · Berlin, DE
• Tilmann Schilling · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 2001
• Grant date: Sep 23, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 7, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07B2017/00322
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A configuration for an optical device interface makes use of the employment of rigid pieces of optical waveguide disposed between a measuring location and a transmitting location in an optical device. A transmitting and receiving device is provided on the main circuit board of a franking machine for the purpose of communicating with the device in which optical signals are transmitted. The optical signals are led back to the main circuit board of the franking machine through the rigid pieces of optical waveguide in the optional device and in the franking machine.