Patents by Inventor Mindaugas F. Daurtartas

Mindaugas F. Daurtartas 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).

  • Fiber array with V-groove chip and mount
    Patent number: 6819858
    Abstract: A molded mount of non-crystalline polymer material is configured to have a channel for retaining a silicon chip having a plurality of juxtaposed V-groove formed in a top surface between right and left side portions, thereof, a recessed area being provided in the channel behind the chip for accommodating fiber buffer coating, and a notch being formed in a top portion of the mount between the channel and one side portion thereof, for retaining strengthening fibers of an optical fiber cable, with the V-groove being configured to receive individual optical fibers therein respectively. Two such molded mounts with silicon chips are securely sandwiched together with V-groove of the chips opposing one another to retain optical fibers therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Shipley Company, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Dan A. Steinberg, David W. Sherrer, Mindaugas F. Daurtartas, Robert G. Schinazi
  • Fiber array with V-groove chip and mount
    Publication number: 20030169994
    Abstract: A molded mount of non-crystalline polymer material is configured to have a channel for retaining a silicon chip having a plurality of juxtaposed V-groove formed in a top surface between right and left side portions, thereof, a recessed area being provided in the channel behind the chip for accommodating fiber buffer coating, and a notch being formed in a top portion of the mount between the channel and one side portion thereof, for retaining strengthening fibers of an optical fiber cable, with the V-groove being configured to receive individual optical fibers therein respectively. Two such molded mounts with silicon chips are securely sandwiched together with V-groove of the chips opposing one another to retain optical fibers therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2001
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Inventors: Dan A. Steinberg, David W. Sherrer, Mindaugas F. Daurtartas, Robert G. Schinazi