US PATENT SUBCLASS 250 / 227.11
.~.~ Light conductor


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250 /   HD   RADIANT ENERGY

200  DF  PHOTOCELLS; CIRCUITS AND APPARATUS {11}
216  DF  .~ Optical or pre-photocell system {11}
227.11.~.~ Light conductor {14}
227.12  DF  .~.~.~> Optical delay line
227.13  DF  .~.~.~> Light pen
227.14  DF  .~.~.~> Condition responsive light guide (e.g., light guide is physically affected by parameter sensed which results in light conveyed to the photocell) {5}
227.2  DF  .~.~.~> With imaging
227.21  DF  .~.~.~> With light chopping or modulation {1}
227.23  DF  .~.~.~> With spectral frequency/wavelength discrimination
227.24  DF  .~.~.~> With coupling enhancement means {1}
227.26  DF  .~.~.~> With scanning
227.27  DF  .~.~.~> With coherent interferrometric light
227.28  DF  .~.~.~> With specific configuration of light conductor components with respect to each other
227.29  DF  .~.~.~> With specific illumination or viewing orientation of light conductor relative to viewed object (e.g., light normal to, and detector at 45 degree angle to, viewed object)
227.3  DF  .~.~.~> With variable orientation of light conductor relative to viewed object (e.g., goniometer)
227.31  DF  .~.~.~> Side or edge illuminated light conductor or collector
227.32  DF  .~.~.~> End illuminated light conductor with noncircular geometric cross section


DEFINITION

Classification: 250/227.11

Light conductor:

(under subclass 216) Subject matter including an optical fiber or rod, made of a material having a high index of refraction that allows it to confine, guide and transmit light.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

359, Optics: Systems (Including Communication) and Elements,

109+, and particularly subclasses 151, 173, 179, 188, and 195 for light wave communications systems which employ optical waveguides optically coupled to photocells.

385, Optical Waveguides, appropriate subclasses for light conducting elements, per se.