Patents by Inventor Gerald P. Senecal

Gerald P. Senecal 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).

  • Partially flexible wound optical fiber bundle having intermediate rigid regions and methods of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 7308177
    Abstract: A of fabricating a partially flexible optical fiber bundle includes forming plural helical fiber ribbons, each helical ribbon being formed by winding a fiber about a mandrel and adjacently fusing a first selected set of fiber portions within each ribbon to define and ends region. The ends regions of multiple fiber helixes are stacked and bonded to form a fiber bundle with and ends section. The ends section is cut through to yield opposed input and output ends of the fiber bundle. Intermediate rigid sections are formed along the length of the bundle by various alternative methods of adjacently bonding selected portions of the constituent ribbon and bundle fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Schott Corporation
    Inventors: Scott A. Raszka, Gerald P. Senecal