Conduit bundles including first-type and second-type conduits with disparate properties

US7570855B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Schott AG · DE

Inventors

• Richard Strack · Sturbridge, US
• Martin Freundt · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 26, 2007
• Grant date: Aug 4, 2009
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/4475
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A conduit bundle includes an inner bundle of first-type conduits extending between inner-bundle first and second ends. The first-type conduits are mutually and adjacently bonded along coinciding portions of their lengths in order to define an inner-bundle rigid region that, as view into a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the inner-bundle rigid region, exhibits an inner-bundle periphery. A separation structure including a structure wall having structure-wall inside and outside surfaces is provided and the inside surface thereof is bonded to the periphery of the inner-bundle rigid region. The conduit bundle further includes a plurality of second-type conduits. Each second-type conduit includes a rigidly bonded region along at least a portion of the length thereof that is bonded to at least one of (i) the structure-wall outside surface and (ii) the bonded region of another second-type conduit of the plurality of second-type conduits.