Patents by Inventor Francis Martin Ernest Sladen

Francis Martin Ernest Sladen 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).

  • Apparatus and method for preparing a coated optical fiber
    Patent number: 6904226
    Abstract: A method of preparing a coated optical fiber for coupling to a face of an optical device includes placing the coated fiber so that it extends through a stripping station, a cleaning station and a cleaving station. A stripper at the stripping station is brought into engagement with the fiber and relative motion between the fiber and the stripping station, the cleaning station and the cleaving station is effected lengthwise of the fiber, whereby the coating is stripped from a medial length segment of the fiber as the cleaning device at the cleaning station is activated for cleaning fragments of coating material from the medial length segment of the fiber as the medial length segment passes through the cleaning station and the cleaning device is deactivated and stripping is discontinued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Inventors: David A. Kritler, Warren R. Hill, Frederic Campbell Schildmeyer, Christiaan Johannes Brokke, Francis Martin Ernest Sladen, Damien Slevin, John W. Dyer
  • Apparatus and method for preparing a coated optical fiber
    Publication number: 20020145731
    Abstract: A method of preparing a coated optical fiber for coupling to a face of an optical device includes placing the coated fiber so that it extends through a stripping station, a cleaning station and a cleaving station. A stripper at the stripping station is brought into engagement with the fiber and relative motion between the fiber and the stripping station, the cleaning station and the cleaving station is effected lengthwise of the fiber, whereby the coating is stripped from a medial length segment of the fiber as the cleaning device at the cleaning station is activated for cleaning fragments of coating material from the medial length segment of the fiber as the medial length segment passes through the cleaning station and the cleaning device is deactivated and stripping is discontinued.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: David A. Kritler, Warren R. Hill, Frederic Campbell Schildmeyer, Christiaan Johannes Brokke, Francis Martin Ernest Sladen, Damien Slevin, John W. Dyer