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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110293231 | OPTICAL FACEPLATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Optical faceplates and methods for manufacturing same are disclosed. An optical faceplate (10) includes a substrate (12) having a major surface, and an array (15) of optical fibers embossed on the substrate. The optical fibers have a length determin... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110222827 | FIBER OPTIC PLATE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME In an FOP 1, a glass body 8 is configured by including antimicrobial glass portions 10 made of antimicrobial glass containing Ag2O. Here, the glass containing silver does not have chemical durability, so that it has properties to easily e... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110169026 | Light Guide for LED Source A device to emit light includes a light emitting diode (LED) die and a light guide coupled to the LED die. The light guide includes a first material having a first index of refraction with a plurality of apertures arranged in a grid. A second material having a second in... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20100183271 | MICROCHANNEL PLATE (MCP) HAVING AN ASYMMETRIC PACKING PATTERN FOR HIGHER OPEN AREA RATIO (OAR) A boule for making a multichannel plate (MCP) includes (a) at least two sets of rows of fibers, each set arranged to form a hexagonally shaped boundary of fibers, and (b) an additional row of fibers disposed between the two sets of hexagonally shaped boundary of fibers.... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100158458 | BEAM AREA ADJUSTMENT THROUGH FIBER BENDING A method positions a first end of an optic fiber a distance from a target and applies a laser light to a second end of the optic fiber such that the laser light is guided by the optic fiber from the second end to the first end of the optic fiber and is emitted from the ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100119200 | Optical components with variable electro-chromic extra-mural absorption capability An optical component includes at least one light-guiding element with a side surface extending between incident and emission faces between which light that is introduced into the incident face can propagate by internal reflection. Disposed over at least a portion of the... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100104248 | FIBER OPTIC A fiber optic includes a plurality of fibers each including a core made of core glass for propagating light and a cladding for covering an outer periphery of the core and made of cladding glass lower in refractive index than the core glass and an absorber glass arranged... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20090322987 | CHANNELIZED PLATE Preferred embodiments utilize a plurality of optical channels to effectively aim the light emitted by a liquid crystal display (LCD). Embodiments may also change the nominal and range of viewing angles of light in two or three dimensions in order to confine the emitted ... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090052850 | Micro-well plates and methods of fabricating and selectively blackening the same Well plates adaptable for specimen sampling in the biological, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences are fabricated by dissolving fusedly-retained cores from the cladding material of a fused fiber plate to define a capillary plate including first and second faces and a p... | 02/26/2009 |
| 20080260336 | Display Device Uniforming Light Distribution Throughout Areas and Method for Manufacturing Same Disclosed arm an optical display device producing uniform light distribution and a method of fabricating such devices. The optical display device has waveguides arranged in vertical and horizontal directions. The waveguide has a conical shape whose cross-section decreas... | 10/23/2008 |
| 20080181566 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FOR TOUCH PANEL An optical waveguide for a touch panel which obviates a need for positioning a light receiving optical waveguide portion. The touch panel optical waveguide Al which is to be fitted around a periphery of a display screen of a display of a touch panel, the optical wavegui... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080069505 | Display device with fiber-optic arrangement The invention relates to a display device having a fiber-optic plate and a display with an image plane on which the image information of the display is generated, the fiber-optic plate comprising a fiber bundle with a multiplicity of fiber cores extending beside one ano... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20070269174 | Optical fiber polarimetric chemical sensor The invention relates to distributed optical waveguide polarimetric chemical analysis. Real-time monitoring of a separation process of a fluid in a capillary column is provided using a distributed sensor comprising a birefringent optical waveguide placed between two pol... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070263968 | Light Pipe Containing Material The present invention relates to an article of manufacture for detecting motion that includes a substrate with a plurality of volumes of material, where each volume is capable of transmitting light from one location on a surface of the substrate to a second location. Th... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070248306 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND LARGE-AREA FIBER PLATE The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiation ... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070212007 | Back light unit mold frame construction A mold frame contains a lamp shade and a light source, a light guide being erected at the open end and secured in place on one side of the lamp shade; streams of light from the light source entering into from one side of the light guide plate to project in the direction... | 09/13/2007 |
| 20070160335 | ABSORPTIVE CLAD FIBER OPTIC FACEPLATE TUBE A limiter device is used as a fiber optic faceplate (FOFP) night vision goggle for limiting light or laser induced damage on a vacuum side of the FOFP. The limiter device includes a plurality of longitudinally extending optical fibers, each bundled to each other to form... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070140632 | Fiber wiring sheet and method of manufacturing same An optical fiber wiring sheet includes: at least one optical-fiber aligning section including a plurality of two-dimensionally aligned and wired coated optical fibers; and at least one optical-fiber branching part where at least one of the plurality of coated optical fi... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070092189 | Optical engine with tightly coupled light source An image presentation device (100) with an associated optical light engine includes one or more semiconductor light emitting diodes or other such devices (122, 124, 126) that are combined to provide a source of light to a micro-display panel (150). ... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070081776 | Large-area fiber plate, radiation image pickup apparatus utilizing the same and producing method therefor The invention provides a fiber plate formed by arranging in mutually adjacent manner plural individual fiber plates of a same thickness so as to provide a light guiding plane larger in area than the light guiding plane of the individual one fiber plate, and a radiation ... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070071387 | Optical fiber array device An optical fiber array device includes a substrate provided with a plurality of accommodating regions and a plurality of optical fibers each provided in the accommodating region of the substrate. One end of the accommodating region is provided with an opening communicat... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20070014524 | Fingerprint-image-forming optical device The invention relates to an optical device which is used to form a fingerprint image. The inventive device comprises an optical plate (1) having a first main face (2) on which a finger (3) is placed, a first side face (4) comprising a converg... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060251365 | Watch fiber optic image guide A display apparatus includes an information display capable of providing information at an external display surface. A fiber optic image guide includes a bottom surface and a top surface. The bottom surface of the fiber optic image guide is optically coupled to the exte... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060239626 | Lossy clad light guide screen Provided is a lossy clad light guide screen. A plurality of aligned light guides are provided. Each light guide has an input end, a midsection, an output end, a core and a circumferential lossy clad. The plurality of input ends are aligned and provide an input face. The... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060239625 | Optical fiber bundle and method for manufacturing thereof An optical fiber bundle that has better ultraviolet resistance characteristics at a wavelength range of 150 to 250 nm and that can be readily and cheaply manufactured with no risk of, for example, explosion during manufacturing and its manufacturing method are provided.... | 10/26/2006 |
| 20060222304 | Hermetic seal for optical fibers Methods and apparatus are provided for a seal assembly that includes a first plate, a second plate, and compliant material. The first and second plates each have a first side, a second side, and a channel extending therebetween. The channel includes a first cross-sectio... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060193579 | Monolithic waveguide arrays A waveguide array is fabricated by providing a photoreactive material and generating an optical intensity pattern corresponding to a geometry of the waveguide array. A relative translation of the photoreactive material is effected through the optical intensity pattern. ... | 08/31/2006 |
| 20060127017 | Optical transmission device An optical transmission device has a light emission element for converting an electrical signal to an optical signal to transmit it to an optical fiber; a lead frame for mounting the light emission element and having a through hole at a position determined with referenc... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060093292 | Elastic microchannel collimating arrays and method of fabrication A microchannel collimating array may be fabricated by casting an elastic sheet onto a substrate containing a plurality of pedestals. The elastic sheet may be cured, and then pulled away from the substrate, leaving the elastic sheet with a plurality of tubes at the locat... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060067635 | Planetary cleaning motion optical connector cleaner An optical connector cleaner. The optical connector cleaner includes a nonlinear path along which an optical connector is moved. By following the nonlinear path, the optical connector is subjected to planetary motion without requiring the operator to twist the connector... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060045444 | Fiber bundles and methods of making fiber bundles The present invention relates to fiber bundles and methods for making fiber bundles. According to one embodiment of the invention, at the endface of the fused fiber bundle, the ratio of the cross-sectional area of the endface to the cross sectional area of the plurality... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060034560 | Apparatus for providing optical communication between integrated circuits of different PC boads and an integrated circuit assembly for use therein Optical communication apparatus comprises: a first IC assembly disposed at a first PCB and comprising: a first IC package electrically coupled to circuits of the first PCB and having an opening in a bottom layer thereof; a first array of optical elements disposed in and... | 02/16/2006 |
| 20050254755 | Breakout assembly for flexible circuitry A lightweight flexible breakout device supports a plurality of single optical fibers, a portion of which are ribbonized. The breakout device generally includes a sleeve having a passageway therethrough and an input holder and an output holder positioned within the passa... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050238303 | Optical panel system including stackable waveguides An optical panel system including stackable waveguides is provided. The optical panel system displays a projected light image and comprises a plurality of planar optical waveguides in a stacked state. The optical panel system further comprises a support system that alig... | 10/27/2005 |
| 20050226574 | Method and apparatus for fabrication of plastic fiber optic block materials and large flat panel displays This invention concerns a method and apparatus for manufacturing a sheet and a two-dimensional matrix of plastic optical fibers. The fibers may be of the step-index or graded-index type. Co-extrusion through a specially designed die is used to produce a sheet composed o... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050201698 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACEPLATE FOR STRUCTURED WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM An apparatus and method for a faceplate for an optical system including a plurality of waveguided radiation channels. The faceplate including: a plurality of waveguide channels, at least one for each channel of the plurality of waveguided radiation channels; and a suppo... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050117861 | Structure of a diffusing film and prism film in LCD screen An improved structure of a diffusing film and prism film in LCD screen mainly relates to using general optical fiber array to substitute for the structure of a diffusing film and prism film. This general optical fiber array is combined with the plural of short general o... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050058414 | Porous retroreflection suppression plates, optical isolators and method of fabricating same A plate having leaky waveguides defined therethrough can be used for retroreflection suppression and/or light diffusing/optical isolation. Such designs can exhibit good performance over a wider range of wavelengths and angles of the incident light than current art optic... | 03/17/2005 |
| 20050047736 | Interactive display system having a digital micromirror imaging device A display system includes a waveguide optical panel having an inlet face and an opposite outlet face. A projector cooperates with a digital imaging device, e.g. a digital micromirror imaging device, for projecting an image through the panel for display on the outlet fac... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050047738 | Interactive display system having a scaled virtual Target zone A display system includes a waveguide optical panel having an inlet face and an opposite outlet face. A projector and imaging device cooperate with the panel for projecting a video image thereon. An optical detector bridges at least a portion of the waveguides for detec... | 03/03/2005 |
