Abstract: A front fender structure includes an enclosure extension which extends from an enclosure extending vertically between a fender panel and an outer panel which forms a front pillar toward the upper part of a wheel arch edge portion of the fender panel; and a fender panel surface reinforcement portion which is provided on the enclosure extension along the inner surface of the fender panel.

Abstract: A front fender structure includes an enclosure extension which extends from an enclosure extending vertically between a fender panel and an outer panel which forms a front pillar toward the upper part of a wheel arch edge portion of the fender panel; and a fender panel surface reinforcement portion which is provided on the enclosure extension along the inner surface of the fender panel.

Abstract: This invention comprises a multi-mode optical "T"-splitter for the coupling of multi-mode optical fibers to, from, and between other fibers, sources, detectors, and other optical elements, and method of fabricating same. The optical T-splitters of this invention may use tubular waveguides to provide a better match with round fibers, resulting in higher efficiency, lower loss, and other improvements. The optical T-splitter is comprised of waveguides forming a substantially T-shaped geometry in a substrate. A reflecting element is inserted at the junction of the "T" to split input light entering one of the legs of the "T" into light being output between the other two legs of the "T". The "T" configuration of these tubular channels and the insertion of various types of reflecting elements at the "T" junction, make it possible to perform any number of optical functions, including splitting, tapping, mixing, and coupling.

Abstract: This invention comprises an optical circuit for the coupling of multi-mode optical fibers to, from and between other fibers, sources, detectors, and other optical elements, and method of fabricating same. The optical circuits of this invention can have round waveguides to provide a better match with round fibers, resulting in higher efficiency, lower loss, and other improvements. A substrate having a relatively low index of refraction is either machined or molded such that semi-circular grooves are formed in substrate surfaces. When two such substrates are aligned and adhered together, tubular channels in a substrate result. The design and placement of these tubular channels can be such that any number of optical functions can be performed, including splitting, tapping, mixing, and coupling. The optical circuits of this invention are relatively easy to manufacture and inexpensive, and exhibit low propagation and coupling loss.

Abstract: An optical waveguide is disclosed which comprises a substrate of A12O3 and a silica glass film of SiO2 applied thereon. The glass film has between 35-90 mol % SiO2. The device may be used in conjunction with electronics on the same substrate to form opto-electronic interconnections. The invention may also be used to apply a thin film glass glaze to a ceramic substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed whereby channel waveguides are formed to have substantially circular cross-section shapes to more closely match the circular cross-section shape of a typical optical fiber. Rectangular cross-section channel waveguides are heated to create surface tension between the core and cladding layers resulting in the rectangular shape changing to a substantially circular shape. An over cladding layer may be added to the circular cross-section waveguide. A method is also disclosed whereby monolithic lenses may be formed from the same circular cross-section waveguides on a common substrate, simultaneously, to provide substantially perfectly aligned lenses and waveguides that are not prone to alignment and bonding problems of discrete lenses.

Abstract: An integrated optoelectrical circuit is described. An apparatus and method are disclosed whereby planar optical waveguides are formed on Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, other ceramics, silicon, silica, and other glass substrates that are thin film wired. An interface coating of silicon or silicon dioxide is applied to a surface of the thin film wired substrates using a low temperature deposition process such as sputtering or chemical vapor deposition. Glass cladding and core layers are deposited onto the thin film coating using a flame hydrolysis deposition technique. With this invention, channel waveguides and integrated optical circuits can be formed on a common substrate with electronic IC chips.

Abstract: The invention relates to a single-mode optical fiber used in a long wavelength band range for optical telecommunication. The core and the cladding of this optical fiber contain P.sub.2 O.sub.5 as a dopant selected to lower the deposition temperature and to hasten the deposition speed so as to result in low absorption loss.

Abstract: A refractory starting member is rotated and, at the same time, moved along the axis of rotation. A glass raw material for the formation of the core of a porous preform and consequently an optical fiber preform is introduced into a high temperature portion near the tip of a high temperature burner from a nozzle for the core disposed in alignment with the center of rotation of one end face of the starting member. The glass raw material blown out from the nozzle for the core are caused by the flames of the high temperature burner to react to produce glass fine particles, which are deposited on abovesaid end face of the starting member at the central portion thereof in its axial direction to form a porous core. At least one nozzle for spraying a glass raw material for the formation of the cladding of the optical fiber preform is disposed opposite to the end face of the starting member but a little deviated from the axis of rotation thereof, or disposed opposite to the peripheral surface of the porous core.

Abstract: An eccentric core optical waveguide comprising at least one glass core having relatively large refraction index disposed in an outer cylindrical glass jacket having larger diameter than that of the glass core and relatively small refraction index. The one or more glass core being so arranged as to made tangential contact with the inner wall of the glass jacket or a dielectric thin film coated inside the jacket at a small area. The space between the glass core and the outer glass jacket or said thin film is filled by air.