Optical fiber ribbon
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsItaru Sakabe, Tomoyuki Hattori
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Abstract
An optical fiber ribbon 11 includes a plurality of optical fibers 12 which are formed of glass fibers 13 covered with resin layers 14, and arranged in parallel. The optical fibers 12 are covered with connecting material 15 to be integrated into the optical fiber ribbon 11. A peeling strength of the connecting material 15 with respect to outer peripheral faces of the optical fibers 12 is set to be from 0.1 N/mm to 10 N/mm.
Claims6
An optical fiber ribbon comprising a plurality of optical fibers which are formed of glass fibers coated with resin, and arranged in parallel, the optical fibers being connected with connecting material,
- wherein a peeling strength of the connecting material with respect to outer peripheral faces of the optical fibers is set to be from 0.1 N/mm to 10 N/mm.
An optical fiber ribbon according to claim 6, characterized in that in a sectional plane perpendicular to an axis of the optical fiber ribbon, a thickness of the connecting material in a direction perpendicular to an arranging direction of the optical fibers, in the regions where the optical fibers are adjacent to each other, is smaller than an outer diameter of the optical fiber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.