Patents by Inventor Joel Patrick Carberry
Joel Patrick Carberry 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: 11952305Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Ravindra Kumar Akarapu, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Alan Deneka, Steven Akin Dunwoody, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, John Michael Jewell, Yuanjie Jiang, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Ming-Jun Li, Barada Kanta Nayak, Dale Robert Powers, Chunfeng Zhou, Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti, Christopher Scott Thomas
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Patent number: 11774676Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array or a single optical fiber is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array or single optical fiber; a coated or ribbonized section of the optical fiber array or the single optical fiber is secured in a holder; the holder is aligned inside the laser-cleaving apparatus; the laser cleaves the stripped ends of the fibers in the optical fiber array or the single optical fiber; the laser-cleaved ends of the optical fiber(s) are then mechanically separated to remove the free ends from the optical fibers in the optical fiber array or the single optical fiber, leaving a cleaved array of optical fibers or a single cleaved optical fiber. The cleaving process enables the optical fiber array or single optical fiber to be cleaved at flexible locations along an optical fiber ribbon, optical fiber, or optical fiber apparatus (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Corning Research & Development CorporationInventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Joel Patrick Carberry, Randy LaRue McClure, Craig John Mancusi Ungaro, Qi Wu, Lei Yuan
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Publication number: 20230251424Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array; a coated or ribbonized section of the optical fiber array is secured in a holder; the holder is aligned inside the laser-cleaving apparatus; the laser cleaves the stripped ends of the fibers in the optical fiber array; the laser-cleaved ends of the optical fibers are then mechanically separated to remove the free ends from the optical fibers in the optical fiber array, leaving a cleaved array of optical fibers. The cleaving process enables the optical fiber array to be cleaved at flexible locations along an optical fiber ribbon or optical fiber cable with no swelling, minimal cleave angle variation across the cores of the optical fibers, a controlled surface roughness of the optical fiber end-faces, and high process yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Joel Patrick Carberry, Randy LaRue McClure, Craig John Mancusi Ungaro, Qi Wu, Lei Yuan
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Patent number: 11640031Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array; a coated or ribbonized section of the optical fiber array is secured in a holder; the holder is aligned inside the laser-cleaving apparatus; the laser cleaves the stripped ends of the fibers in the optical fiber array; the laser-cleaved ends of the optical fibers are then mechanically separated to remove the free ends from the optical fibers in the optical fiber array, leaving a cleaved array of optical fibers. The cleaving process enables the optical fiber array to be cleaved at flexible locations along an optical fiber ribbon or optical fiber cable with no swelling, minimal cleave angle variation across the cores of the optical fibers, a controlled surface roughness of the optical fiber end-faces, and high process yield.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Corning Research & Development CorporationInventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Joel Patrick Carberry, Randy LaRue McClure, Craig John Mancusi Ungaro, Qi Wu, Lei Yuan
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Publication number: 20230131288Abstract: A method of processing an optical fiber that includes drawing an optical fiber along a fiber pathway through a hollow light pipe, wherein the hollow light pipe comprises a first end having an opening with a radius Rp, a second end and a pipe body comprising a chamber extending from the first to the second end, the fiber pathway extending through the pipe body, and a reflective coating is disposed on the pipe body, and directing a light from a directed light source into the hollow light pipe through the opening such that the light is reflected by the reflective coating while propagating in the hollow light pipe, the optical fiber absorbing the light reflected by the reflective coating, wherein the light enters the opening of the hollow light pipe at an input angle in a range of from 10° to 70° with respect to the fiber pathway.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Joel Patrick Carberry, Ming-Jun Li, Craig Daniel Nie, Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti, Chunfeng Zhou
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Publication number: 20230117462Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laser polishing apparatus where the laser beam emitted by the laser polishing apparatus can be configured to control the shape of the optical fiber end face. Stated another way, the laser polishing apparatus parameters can be adjusted such that the laser beam emitted can polish the optical fiber end face into a particular shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Anthony Sebastian Bauco, Joel Patrick Carberry, Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti, Lei Yuan
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Patent number: 11487069Abstract: An optical cable and method for forming an optical cable is provided. The cable includes a cable jacket including an inner surface defining a channel and an outer surface and also includes a plurality of optical fibers located within the channel. The cable includes a seam within the cable jacket that couples together opposing longitudinal edges of a wrapped thermoplastic sheet which forms the cable jacket and maintains the cable jacket in the wrapped configuration around the plurality of optical fibers. The method includes forming an outer cable jacket by wrapping a sheet of thermoplastic material around a plurality of optical core elements. The method includes melting together portions of thermoplastic material of opposing longitudinal edges of the wrapped sheet such that a seam is formed holding the sheet of thermoplastic material in the wrapped configuration around the core elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONInventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, David Wesley Chiasson, Anping Liu, Eric Raymond Logan, Barada Kanta Nayak, Christopher Mark Quinn
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Publication number: 20220098085Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Ravindra Kumar Akarapu, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Alan Deneka, Steven Akin Dunwoody, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, John Michael Jewell, Yuanjie Jiang, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Ming-Jun Li, Barada Kanta Nayak, Dale Robert Powers, Chunfeng Zhou, Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti, Christopher Scott Thomas
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Patent number: 11256039Abstract: A method of cleaving an optical fiber comprises inserting the optical fiber through a bore of a holding member, securing the optical fiber to the holding member with a bonding agent, operating at least one laser to emit at least one laser beam, and directing the at least one laser beam from the at least one laser to the end face of the holding member. At least a portion of the at least one laser beam reflects off the end face of the holding member and is thereafter incident on an end portion of the optical fiber. The at least one laser beam cleaves the end portion of the optical fiber less than 20 ?m from the end face of the holding member. Related systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, Minghan Chen, Ming-Jun Li, Anping Liu, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Publication number: 20210373239Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array or a single optical fiber is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array or single optical fiber; a coated or ribbonized section of the optical fiber array or the single optical fiber is secured in a holder; the holder is aligned inside the laser-cleaving apparatus; the laser cleaves the stripped ends of the fibers in the optical fiber array or the single optical fiber; the laser-cleaved ends of the optical fiber(s) are then mechanically separated to remove the free ends from the optical fibers in the optical fiber array or the single optical fiber, leaving a cleaved array of optical fibers or a single cleaved optical fiber. The cleaving process enables the optical fiber array or single optical fiber to be cleaved at flexible locations along an optical fiber ribbon, optical fiber, or optical fiber apparatus (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Joel Patrick Carberry, Randy LaRue McClure, Craig John Mancusi Ungaro, Qi Wu, Lei Yuan
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Publication number: 20210373238Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array; a coated or ribbonized section of the optical fiber array is secured in a holder; the holder is aligned inside the laser-cleaving apparatus; the laser cleaves the stripped ends of the fibers in the optical fiber array; the laser-cleaved ends of the optical fibers are then mechanically separated to remove the free ends from the optical fibers in the optical fiber array, leaving a cleaved array of optical fibers. The cleaving process enables the optical fiber array to be cleaved at flexible locations along an optical fiber ribbon or optical fiber cable with no swelling, minimal cleave angle variation across the cores of the optical fibers, a controlled surface roughness of the optical fiber end-faces, and high process yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Scott Robertson Bickham, Joel Patrick Carberry, Randy LaRue McClure, Craig John Mancusi Ungaro, Qi Wu, Lei Yuan
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Publication number: 20210263250Abstract: An optical cable and method for forming an optical cable is provided. The cable includes a cable jacket including an inner surface defining a channel and an outer surface and also includes a plurality of optical fibers located within the channel. The cable includes a seam within the cable jacket that couples together opposing longitudinal edges of a wrapped thermoplastic sheet which forms the cable jacket and maintains the cable jacket in the wrapped configuration around the plurality of optical fibers. The method includes forming an outer cable jacket by wrapping a sheet of thermoplastic material around a plurality of optical core elements. The method includes melting together portions of thermoplastic material of opposing longitudinal edges of the wrapped sheet such that a seam is formed holding the sheet of thermoplastic material in the wrapped configuration around the core elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, David Wesley Chiasson, Anping Liu, Eric Raymond Logan, Barada Kanta Nayak, Christopher Mark Quinn
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Publication number: 20200241213Abstract: A method of cleaving an optical fiber comprises inserting the optical fiber through a bore of a holding member, securing the optical fiber to the holding member with a bonding agent, operating at least one laser to emit at least one laser beam, and directing the at least one laser beam from the at least one laser to the end face of the holding member. At least a portion of the at least one laser beam reflects off the end face of the holding member and is thereafter incident on an end portion of the optical fiber. The at least one laser beam cleaves the end portion of the optical fiber less than 20 ?m from the end face of the holding member. Related systems are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, Minghan Chen, Ming-Jun Li, Anping Liu, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Patent number: 10620395Abstract: A system and method for marking a moving surface of a fiber optic cable is provided. The system includes a supply of the fiber optic cable, a laser generating device configured to generate a laser beam that forms markings by interacting with the material of the moving surface of the fiber optic cable. The system includes a movement device moving the fiber optic cable through the system at a speed of at least 50 m per minute. The system includes a laser directing device located in the path of the laser beam and configured to change the path of the laser beam to direct the laser beam to a plurality of discrete locations on the moving surface to form a series of marks on the moving surface. The moving surface includes a plurality of tracking indicia to allow the position of the moving surface to be determined.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, Anping Liu, Eric John Mozdy, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Patent number: 10610970Abstract: A method of forming an optical surface on an end portion of an optical fiber comprises inserting the optical fiber through a ferrule bore of a ferrule so that the end portion extends past an end face on the ferrule. At least one laser beam is emitted from at least one laser and directed to the end face of the ferrule. The at least one laser beam is shaped into an ellipse and comprises at least 90 percent linearly-polarized light incident on the end face of the ferrule as S-polarized light. The at least one laser is operated so that the S-polarized light reflects off the end face of the ferrule and cleaves the end portion of the optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, Anping Liu, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Patent number: 10317635Abstract: An optical communication cable and related systems and methods are provided. The optical cable includes a plurality of wrapped core elements, and the outer surfaces of adjacent wrapped core elements are joined together by discrete bond sections. The discrete bonds sections may be structures such as laser welds, ultrasonic welds, or adhesive material. The discrete bonds hold the wrapped core elements together in the wrapped pattern, such as an SZ stranding pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Anne Germaine Bringuier, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Wesley Chiasson, Anping Liu, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Publication number: 20190025534Abstract: A system and method for marking a moving surface of a fiber optic cable is provided. The system includes a supply of the fiber optic cable, a laser generating device configured to generate a laser beam that forms markings by interacting with the material of the moving surface of the fiber optic cable. The system includes a movement device moving the fiber optic cable through the system at a speed of at least 50 m per minute. The system includes a laser directing device located in the path of the laser beam and configured to change the path of the laser beam to direct the laser beam to a plurality of discrete locations on the moving surface to form a series of marks on the moving surface. The moving surface includes a plurality of tracking indicia to allow the position of the moving surface to be determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, Anping Liu, Eric John Mozdy, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Patent number: 10133018Abstract: A crush resistant, kink resistant optical cable including crush resistant, kink resistant optical fiber buffer tubes and systems and method for making the same are provided. The buffer tubes include a depression pattern formed along the outer surface of the buffer tube. The depression pattern provides areas of decreased thickness in the buffer tube facilitating flexibility and kink resistance. The system and method relates to laser ablation for forming the depression pattern in the buffer tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, David Wesley Chiasson, Jeffrey Dean Danley, Anping Liu, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Patent number: 10114190Abstract: A system and method for marking a moving surface of a fiber optic cable is provided. The system includes a supply of the fiber optic cable, a laser generating device configured to generate a laser beam that forms markings by interacting with the material of the moving surface of the fiber optic cable. The system includes a movement device moving the fiber optic cable through the system at a speed of at least 50 m per minute. The system includes a laser directing device located in the path of the laser beam and configured to change the path of the laser beam to direct the laser beam to a plurality of discrete locations on the moving surface to form a series of marks on the moving surface. The moving surface includes a plurality of tracking indicia to allow the position of the moving surface to be determined.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Carberry, Anping Liu, Eric J. Mozdy, Barada Kanta Nayak
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Publication number: 20180252883Abstract: An optical communication cable and related systems and methods are provided. The optical cable includes a plurality of wrapped core elements, and the outer surfaces of adjacent wrapped core elements are joined together by discrete bond sections. The discrete bonds sections may be structures such as laser welds, ultrasonic welds, or adhesive material. The discrete bonds hold the wrapped core elements together in the wrapped pattern, such as an SZ stranding pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2018Publication date: September 6, 2018Inventors: Anne Germaine Bringuier, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Wesley Chiasson, Anping Liu, Barada Kanta Nayak