Optical fiber bundle

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To protect the circumference of an interface easy to break effectively by fitting a reinforcing pipe, which is long enough to cover some part of a flexible part, around a fixation part, and by bundling the flexible part at one end of this pipe by a flexible bundling means. CONSTITUTION:Many optical fiber 1 are stacked and fixed in one body. This fixation is performed by interposing adhesives 10 among respective fibers 1. For an image guide, the adhesives 10 are applied when the optical fibers 1 are arrayed and stacked, and for a light guide, many optical fibers 1 are inserted into, for example, a reinforcing pipe 5 and then the adhesives 10 are injected from the opening end 5a of the pipe 5. As the adhesives 10, an organic adhesive of epoxy resin, etc., is used.

Inventors

• 👤 Isatomo Harada
• 👤 Takuo Kojima

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