CONSTRUCTION OF OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON - BRITISH INSULATED CALLENDERS

Title:

CONSTRUCTION OF OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON

Document Type and Number:

Japanese Patent JPS6012521

Kind Code:

A

Abstract:

An optical fibre ribbon structure suitable for use in an optical cable or other application where there is a risk that optical fibres will be subjected to a tensile force comprises a plurality of optical fibres (1) and flexible reinforcing elements (2) of resilient material arranged side by side and embedded in an elongate plastics body (3). Each resilient reinforcing element (2) is set in such a form that the ribbon structure follows a path of smoothly curved undulations (4) whose axes of curvature lie parallel to one another and normal to the longitudinal axis of the ribbon structure. When the undulating ribbon structure is subjected to a tensile force, the ribbon structure straightens in a lengthwise direction against the action of the resilient reinforcing elements thereby reducing the tensile force otherwise applied to the optical fibres (1). When the tensile force is removed, the ribbon structure returns towards its original undulating form.

Inventors:

JIYON EDOWAADO TEIRAA

Application Number:

JP12389884A

Publication Date:

January 22, 1985

Filing Date:

June 18, 1984

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