Slot rod and optical fiber cable
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsKentaro TAKEDA, Ken TAKAHASHI
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Abstract
A slot rod having a plurality of grooves for storing a plurality of optical fibers, a first layer disposed at a center of the slot rod, a second layer provided on an outer peripheral portion of the first layer, a third layer provided on an outer peripheral portion of the second layer, and an outermost layer provided on an outer peripheral portion of the third layer, and the third layer is formed of a material having higher adhesiveness to the outermost layer than a material in a case where the third layer is formed of the same material as the outermost layer.
Claims7
A slot rod that includes a plurality of grooves storing a plurality of optical fibers, the slot rod comprising:
- a tension member at a center of the slot rod;
- a first layer adhered to the tension member;
- a second layer on an outer periphery of the first layer;
- a third layer on an outer periphery of the second layer;
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- an outermost layer on an outer periphery of the third layer, the outermost layer including the plurality of grooves,
- wherein the third layer is formed of a material having higher adhesion to the outermost layer than a material in a case where the third layer is formed of the same material as the outermost layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.