Lensless multifiber output coupler
CA 2010662 C · Owner: Ortiz, Angel L. Jr. · Inventors: Jones, Marshall G.; Ortiz, Angel L. Jr.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An X-shaped body has four slots for receiving optical fibers. A first pair of opposing slots are parallel so the fiber delivered high power laser beams can be used to solder components having leads while a second, pair of slots are at a right angles so the laser beams can be used to solder chip components. Screws and springs are in the slots to adjust the spacing and angle of the fibers of a pair with respect to each other.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed February 22, 1990 and granted April 14, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 22, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 22, 2012.
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