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Granted Patent B2
US 10,268,009 · App. 15/771,642 · Granted Apr 23, 2019

Optical fiber cable

Inventors: Fumiaki Sato (Yokohama, JP); Kenta Tsuchiya (Yokohama, JP); Keisuke Okada (Yokohama, JP); Yoshiaki Nagao (Yokohama, JP); Nobuyuki Suzuki (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
G02B6/4403G02B6/44G02B6/441G02B6/4407G02B6/4489G02B6/443
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Patent No.
US 10,268,009
App. No.
15/771,642
Granted
Apr 23, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical fiber cable comprises optical units having a plurality of optical fiber ribbons, a slot rod having a plurality of slot grooves in which the optical units are accommodated, and a cable sheath configured to cover an outer side of the slot rod, each of the optical fiber ribbons is intermittently provided with coupling portions, at which adjacent optical fibers are coupled therebetween, and non-coupling portions, at which adjacent optical fibers are not coupled therebetween, in a longitudinal direction between a part or all of the optical fibers in a state where the plurality of optical fibers is arranged in parallel, and an outer diameter of the optical fiber cable is 35 mm or less and a number of the optical fibers in the optical unit accommodated in one slot groove is 100 or more.

Claims (9)

1. An optical fiber cable comprising:

optical units having a plurality of optical fiber ribbons;

a slot rod having a plurality of slot grooves in which the optical units are accommodated, and

a cable sheath configured to cover an outer side of the slot rod,

wherein each of the optical fiber ribbons is intermittently provided with coupling portions, at which adjacent optical fibers are coupled therebetween, and non-coupling portions, at which adjacent optical fibers are not coupled therebetween, in a longitudinal direction between a part or all of the optical fibers in a state where the plurality of optical fibers is arranged in parallel, and

wherein an outer diameter of the optical fiber cable is 35 mm or less, and a number of the optical fibers in the optical unit accommodated in one slot groove is 100 or more,

wherein each optical unit has a plurality of sub-units, the optical fiber ribbons being stranded in each of the sub-units.

2. The optical fiber cable according to claim 1 , wherein a density of the optical fibers included in the optical fiber cable is equal to or higher than 2.4 fibers/mm 2 in a section of the optical fiber cable.

3. The optical fiber cable according to claim 1 , wherein each sub-unit is wound with a bundle material thereon.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 27, 2018
From: SATO, FUMIAKI; TSUCHIYA, KENTA; OKADA, KEISUKE; NAGAO, YOSHIAKI; SUZUKI, NOBUYUKI
To: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-014480 · Jan 28, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180321453A1 · Nov 8, 2018
Cited By (1)
US 12,248,192