Method for manufacturing optical coupling part and optical coupling part
AssigneesSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsWataru Sakurai, Kazuhito Saito, Hideo Numata, Chiaki Takubo, Hideto Furuyama, Hiroshi Hamasaki
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Abstract
After a wiring plate 30 having a plurality of leads 31 been insert-molded to an edge face 21 of a molded article 20, unwanted portions of the wiring plate 30 are cut, thereby enabling easy three-dimensional wiring. As a result, an electrode terminal section 43 of a photoelectric conversion element 41 disposed opposite an end face 11b of an optical fiber 11 can be electrically coupled to an electrical wiring section 23 of an optical coupling part 10.
Claims10
A method for manufacturing an optical coupling part for connecting an optical fiber with a photoelectric conversion unit having a photoelectric conversion element, comprising:
- arranging a wiring plate on a mold;
- insert-molding the wiring plate after arranging the wiring plate on the mold, which is to serve as an electrical wiring section and has a plurality of leads, into a molded element into which an optical fiber is to be inserted;
- positioning an active layer of the photoelectric conversion element to an optical fiber insertion hole formed in an edge face of the molded element;
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- fastening the photoelectric conversion unit having the photoelectric conversion element to the edge face of the molded element with an electrode terminal section of the photoelectric conversion element remaining in contact with the leads of the wiring plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.