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US 5,212,744 AGranted
Compact optical switch
AssigneeNihon Kaiheiki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazumitsu Ohnuki
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Abstract
A compact control-type optical switch includes a control knob provided on the obverse surface of a lid; a switching member slidable right and left in a housing; a substantially trapezoidal prism disposed on the undersurface of the switching member; and a plurality of optical receptacles provided on the bottom of the housing. The control knob is actuated, and thereby the prism slides on the optical receptacles to change an optical path.
Claims9
A compact optical switching comprising:
- a housing;
- a lid for the housing;
- a control knob provided on an obverse surface of the lid;
- a switching member linearly reciprocable right and left in the housing;
- a substantially trapezoidal prism disposed on an undersurface of the switching member;
- and
- a plurality of optical receptacles provided on the bottom of the housing;
- wherein when the control knob is actuated, the prism linearly reciprocates on the optical receptacles to change an optical path.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.