Patents by Inventor Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
Eric Aloysius Kuijpers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9828279Abstract: A device for manufacturing an optical preform by means of an internal vapour deposition process including an energy source, a hollow substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side and the energy source being moveable along a length of the hollow substrate tube, and an elongation tube connected to the hollow substrate tube at the discharge side thereof, wherein the hollow substrate tube extends into an interior of the elongation tube and an internal diameter of the elongation tube is at least 0.5 millimeters larger than an external diameter of the hollow substrate tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Gertjan Krabshuis, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Publication number: 20160376185Abstract: A device for manufacturing an optical preform by means of an internal vapour deposition process including an energy source, a hollow substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side and the energy source being moveable along a length of the hollow substrate tube, and an elongation tube connected to the hollow substrate tube at the discharge side thereof, wherein the hollow substrate tube extends into an interior of the elongation tube and an internal diameter of the elongation tube is at least 0.5 millimeters larger than an external diameter of the hollow substrate tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Gertjan Krabshuis, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 9512028Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibers including surrounding at least part of a hollow substrate tube with a furnace set at a temperature T0, supplying doped or undoped gases to the inside of the tube, creating a reaction zone to promote deposition, and moving the zone back and forth along the length of the tube between to form at least one preform layer, wherein the temperature of the furnace is varied linearly as a function of the thickness of the at least one preform layer to compensate for temperature increases of the tube during deposition.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 9463994Abstract: A device for manufacturing an optical preform by means of an internal vapor deposition process including an energy source, a hollow substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side and the energy source being moveable along a length of the hollow substrate tube, and an elongation tube connected to the hollow substrate tube at the discharge side thereof, wherein the hollow substrate tube extends into an interior of the elongation tube and an internal diameter of the elongation tube is at least 0.5 millimeters larger than an external diameter of the hollow substrate tube.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Gertjan Krabshuis, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Publication number: 20150336838Abstract: A device for manufacturing an optical preform by means of an internal vapour deposition process including an energy source, a hollow substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side and the energy source being moveable along a length of the hollow substrate tube, and an elongation tube connected to the hollow substrate tube at the discharge side thereof, wherein the hollow substrate tube extends into an interior of the elongation tube and an internal diameter of the elongation tube is at least 0.5 millimeters larger than an external diameter of the hollow substrate tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Gertjan Krabshuis, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 8904827Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical preform via an internal vapor deposition process, wherein during the inside deposition process the velocity of the reaction zone is set so that the velocity of the reaction zone over the length of the supply side-to-discharge side is higher than the velocity of the reaction zone over the length of the discharge side-to-supply side.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Eugen Aldea, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 8826699Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibers using an internal vapor deposition process including the steps of providing a substrate tube having supply and discharge sides, surrounding at least part of the tube by a furnace, supplying glass-forming gases to the interior of the tube via the supply side, creating a reaction zone with conditions such that deposition of glass will take place on the inner surface of the tube, and moving the reaction zone back and forth along the length of the tube between reversal points near the supply and discharge sides to form one or more preform layers on the inner surface of the tube, wherein both reversal points are surrounded by the furnace.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Publication number: 20140230495Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibres including surrounding at least part of a hollow substrate tube with a furnace set at a temperature T0, supplying doped or undoped gases to the inside of the tube, creating a reaction zone to promote deposition, and moving the zone back and forth along the length of the tube between to form at least one preform layer, wherein the temperature of the furnace is varied linearly as a function of the thickness of the at least one preform layer to compensate for temperature increases of the tube during deposition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 8739575Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibers using an internal vapor deposition process including the steps of providing a substrate tube having supply and discharge sides, surrounding at least part of the tube by a furnace set at a temperature T0, supplying doped or undoped gases via the supply side, creating a reaction zone to promote deposition, and moving the zone back and forth along the length of the tube between reversal points near the supply and discharge sides to form at least one preform layer, which at least one layer comprises several glass layers.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 8443630Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibers using an internal vapor deposition process, including the steps of: i) providing a hollow glass substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side, ii) surrounding at least part of the hollow glass substrate tube by a furnace, iii) supplying a gas flow, doped or undoped, of glass-forming gases to the interior of the hollow glass substrate tube via the supply side thereof, iv) creating a reaction zone in which conditions such that deposition of glass will take place on the interior of the hollow glass tube are created, and v) moving the reaction zone back and forth in longitudinal direction over the hollow glass substrate tube between a reversal point located near the supply side and a reversal point located near the discharge side of the hollow glass substrate tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Eugen Aldea, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Publication number: 20120240636Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical preform via an internal vapour deposition process, wherein during the inside deposition process the velocity of the reaction zone is set so that the velocity of the reaction zone over the length of the supply side-to-discharge side is higher than the velocity of the reaction zone over the length of the discharge side-to-supply side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Eugen Aldea, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 8192808Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and related method for manufacturing an optical preform. The present invention embraces a novel insert tube that is strategically positioned within a quartz substrate tube during the internal vapor deposition process.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.Inventors: Marco Korsten, Marc Jansen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Publication number: 20110247369Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibres using an internal vapour deposition process, including the steps of: i) providing a hollow glass substrate tube having a supply side and a discharge side, ii) surrounding at least part of the hollow glass substrate tube by a furnace, iii) supplying a gas flow, doped or undoped, of glass-forming gases to the interior of the hollow glass substrate tube via the supply side thereof, iv) creating a reaction zone in which conditions such that deposition of glass will take place on the interior of the hollow glass tube are created, and v) moving the reaction zone back and forth in longitudinal direction over the hollow glass substrate tube between a reversal point located near the supply side and a reversal point located near the discharge side of the hollow glass substrate tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Igor MILICEVIC, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas VAN STRALEN, Johannes Antoon HARTSUIKER, Eugen ALDEA, Eric Aloysius KUIJPERS
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Publication number: 20110023550Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibres using an internal vapour deposition process including the steps of providing a substrate tube having supply and discharge sides, surrounding at least part of the tube by a furnace set at a temperature T0, supplying doped or undoped gases via the supply side, creating a reaction zone to promote deposition, and moving the zone back and forth along the length of the tube between reversal points near the supply and discharge sides to form at least one preform layer, which at least one layer comprises several glass layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Publication number: 20110023549Abstract: A method for manufacturing a primary preform for optical fibres using an internal vapour deposition process including the steps of providing a substrate tube having supply and discharge sides, surrounding at least part of the tube by a furnace, supplying glass-forming gases to the interior of the tube via the supply side, creating a reaction zone with conditions such that deposition of glass will take place on the inner surface of the tube, and moving the reaction zone back and forth along the length of the tube between reversal points near the supply and discharge sides to form one or more preform layers on the inner surface of the tube, wherein both reversal points are surrounded by the furnace.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2010Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: DRAKA COMTEQ B.V.Inventors: Johannes Antoon Hartsuiker, Igor Milicevic, Mattheus Jacobus Nicolaas Van Stralen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 7522800Abstract: A preform for manufacturing an optical fibre or an optical fiber, where the variation in the refractive index contrast of the preform does not exceed an absolute value of 2%, measured for a preform having a length of at least 60 cm, or the deviation of the preform in relation to the average value of the profile parameter ? does not exceed an absolute value of 0.03, measured for a preform having a length of at least 80 cm. The optical fibre has a deviation from the average value of the profile shape parameter ? of maximally about 0.03.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2006Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Frans Gooijer, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers, Dennis Robert Simons, Rob Hubertus Matheus Deckers
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Publication number: 20080268174Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and related method for manufacturing an optical preform. The present invention embraces a novel insert tube that is strategically positioned within a quartz substrate tube during the internal vapor deposition process.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: Draka Comteq B.V.Inventors: Marco Korsten, Marc Jansen, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers
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Patent number: 7116877Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an optical fibre suitable for high transmission rates, which method comprises: i) supplying one or more glass forming precursors, and possibly a dopant, to a quartz substrate tube, ii) forming a plasma in the quartz substrate tube for the purpose of bringing about a reaction mixture so as to form glass layers, which may or may not be doped, on the interior of the substrate tube, iii) collapsing the substrate tube obtained in step ii) into a perform while heating, and iv) drawing an optical fibre from the perform while heating. The present invention furthermore relates to an optical fibre suitable for high transmission rates.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2005Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: Draka Fibre Technology B.V.Inventors: Eric Aloysius Kuijpers, Peter Johannes Theodorus Pleunis
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Patent number: 7068895Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an optical fibre suitable for high transmission rates, which method comprises: i) supplying one or more glass forming precursors, and possibly a dopant, to a quartz substrate tube, ii) forming a plasma in the quartz substrate tube for the purpose of bringing about a reaction mixture so as to form glass layers, which may or may not be doped, on the interior of the substrate tube, iii) collapsing the substrate tube obtained in step ii) into a perform while heating, and iv) drawing an optical fibre from the perform while heating. The present invention furthermore relates to an optical fibre suitable for high transmission rates.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Draka Fibre Technology B. V.Inventors: Eric Aloysius Kuijpers, Peter Johannes Theodorus Pleunis
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Patent number: 7068899Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an optical fiber, which method comprises the following steps: i) providing a hollow substrate tube, ii) passing doped or undoped reactive, glass-forming gases through the interior of the hollow substrate tube, iii) creating such conditions in the interior of the hollow substrate tube that deposition of glass layers onto the interior of the hollow substrate tube takes place, wherein a non-isothermal plasma is reciprocated between two reversal points along the substrate tube, wherein the velocity of movement of the plasma decreases to zero at each reversal point, iv) collapsing the substrate tube thus obtained so as to form a solid preform, and v) drawing an optical fiber from said solid preform. In addition to that, the present invention relates to a preform for manufacturing an optical fiber, as well as to an optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2004Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Draka Fibre Technology B.V.Inventors: Igor Milicevic, Frans Gooijer, Eric Aloysius Kuijpers, Dennis Robert Simons, Rob Hubertus Matheus Deckers