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US 3,937,558 AGranted
Optical fiber light pen
AssigneeNippon Glass Fiber Co., Ltd.
InventorsKunihiko Mukai, Kikuo Ikeda
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Abstract
This invention relates to a light pen, and more particularly to a construction of such light pen in which a small portion having a scanning face and including a combined end of a photonconductive optical fiber bundle is housed within a cartridge body, and the remaining bifurcated portion of the fiber bundle is housed in the pen holder body and a cord provided continuous thereto, the cartridge and pen holder bodies being detachably joined together.
Claims8
A light pen containing a photon-conductive fiber bundle, the bundle being bifurcated at one end and combined at the other end, comprising,
- a. a cartridge body housing a portion of the photon-conductive fiber bundle including the combined end and a first bifurcated portion thereof, and
- b. a pen holder body housing the remaining bifurcated portions of the fiber bundle, said cartridge body being detachably fixed to an end of said pen holder body, a plug end of each of said remaining portions projecting out from an end face of said pen holder body, the ends of said first bifurcated portion being positioned in corresponding holes opening at an end of said cartridge body opposite that of said cartridge body opposite that of said combined end, said plug ends being detachably received in said corresponding holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.