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Automated laser pressing system

US7371017B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 1, 2004
Grant dateMay 13, 2008
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Expiry dateJan 19, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/4226
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Au automated laser pressing system assembles and aligns a laser header subassembly to a lens housing. The automated system generally includes a precise press system and a fast fiber alignment system. The press system precisely presses the housing onto the header, or the header onto the housing, and the fiber alignment system keeps a fiber in alignment with light passed through the lens to measure the laser header to lens housing alignment. Feedback from the fiber alignment system to the housing press system is used to precisely and automatically adjust the alignment as necessary before the housing and header are permanently affixed.

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