Patents by Inventor Richard Gregory Wheeler

Richard Gregory Wheeler 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).

  • Light bending devices
    Patent number: 5708743
    Abstract: Improved connectors for optically coupling a fiber optic transmission line and an opto-electronic device electrically interfaced to a substrate. The improved connectors include the opto-electronic device being mounted on the substrate, such as a printed circuit board, and means for mounting the fiber optic transmission line to the substrate such that the operative axis of the opto-electronic device is substantially not coincidental with the light transmission axis of the fiber optic transmission line. The connectors also require light bending means in operative optical association with said opto-electronic device for directing along the light transmission axis of the fiber optic transmission line at least a portion of the light emitted from said opto-electronic device or for directing along the operative axis of said opto-electronic device at least a portion of the light emitted from said fiber optic transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: John Joseph DeAndrea, Francis Thomas Delahanty, Allan Heiney, Bill Henry Reysen, Donald Simon, Richard Gregory Wheeler