Method of manufacturing a leached fiber bundle

US7308807B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Scott Glas · DE
• Carl Zeiss Stiftung · DE

Inventors

• Klaus Gerstner · Mainz, DE
• Armin Plichta · Sponheim, DE
• Dirk Schlatterbeck · Friltschen, CH
• Michael Weisser · Sturbridge, US
• Peter Brix · Mainz, DE
• Martin Sommer · Aachen, DE
• Robert A. Rubino · Tolland, US
• Jeffrey A. Bonja · Avon, US
• Richard Strack · Sturbridge, US
• Inka Henze · Udenheim, DE
• Paul Arsenault · Southbridge, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 18, 2007
• Expiry date: Aug 21, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P40/57
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A mesh (36) is placed around a bundle (32) of fused glass fibers. The bundle is then immersed in a leaching bath (44). The ends of the bundle are protected from the bath fluid by furrules (34). Some of the glass of the bundle is leached out, so as to provide a flexible fiber bundle.