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Fixture for shape-sensing optical fiber in a kinematic chain

  • US 8,616,782 B2
  • Filed: 04/24/2012
  • Issued: 12/31/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • articulating a first link and a second link relative to each other via a joint coupled between the first and second links; and

    during the articulating, bending a shape-sensing optical fiber to remain tangent along a curved surface of a lip of a channel in the first link through which the fiber extends towards the joint, the curved surface beginning substantially tangent to a wall of the channel.

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