Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Plastic optical fiber and method for its production
- Patent Title (中): 塑料光纤及其生产方法
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Application No.: US14636698Application Date: 2015-03-03
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Publication No.: US09304251B2Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Inventor: Toshiyuki Tanaka , Nobuyuki Kasahara , Masakuni Sato , Hiroshi Yamamoto , Susumu Saito , Tetsuji Shimohira , Yoshinobu Takano , Naoto Ota
- Applicant: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P
- Priority: JP2012-199551 20120911
- Main IPC: G02B6/036
- IPC: G02B6/036 ; D01D5/34 ; G02B6/02 ; B29C47/06 ; B29C47/92 ; G02B1/04 ; B29C47/00 ; B29L11/00 ; B29K27/12

Abstract:
To provide a plastic optical fiber using amorphous fluorinated polymers whereby transmission loss and bending loss are low, no cracking takes place during stretching, and a wide range of molding conditions is acceptable.A plastic optical fiber comprising an inner layer, an outer layer having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the inner layer, and a protective coating layer covering the outer periphery of the outer layer, wherein the inner layer contains an amorphous fluorinated polymer (a) having no C—H bond, the outer layer contains an amorphous fluorinated polymer (c) which may have a C—H bond only at a terminal of the main chain, the glass transition temperature (Tgc) of the fluorinated polymer (c) is at least the glass transition temperature (Tga) of the fluorinated polymer (a), the plastic optical fiber is a stretched one, the fracture elongation of the fluorinated polymer (a) and the fracture elongation of the fluorinated polymer (c) are at least 120% and larger than the stretching ratio.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150177456A1 PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION Public/Granted day:2015-06-25
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