Patent ID: 9245671
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H01B,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of making a wire array device, comprising steps of: providing a tube of a sealing material, the tube having an interior surface; positioning a wire in the tube, the wire having an exterior surface, wherein the wire material has a melting point higher than the melting point of the sealing material and an outside diameter of the wire is less than an inside diameter of the tube, wherein voids are present between the wire and the tube; heating and softening the tube and drawing the softened tube to bring the interior surface of the tube into contact with the exterior surface of the wire to create a coated wire; bundling the coated wire to form a plurality of bundled individually coated wires comprising voids between the coated wire; heating the plurality of bundled individually coated wires to fuse the sealing material coating the coated wire to create a solid fused rod with an array of the wire embedded within a solid matrix of sealing material, with the sealing material separating the wire from contact with each other; wherein voids between the tube and the wire and voids between the bundled coated wire are removed; and, further comprising a step of cutting the fused rod into wafers, to make the wire array device.