Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical fiber unit, optical fiber branching method, and optical fiber cable
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Application No.: US14915657Application Date: 2014-10-01
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Publication No.: US09618717B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Naoto Ito , Masayuki Ishioka , Kouji Tomikawa , Ken Osato , Masayoshi Yamanaka , Naoki Okada
- Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
- Current Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2013-210084 20131007
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/076259 WO 20141001
- International Announcement: WO2015/053146 WO 20150416
- Main IPC: G02B6/44
- IPC: G02B6/44 ; G02B6/46

Abstract:
An objective of the disclosure is to improve workability in extracting optical fibers in an optical fiber unit in which a bundle of optical fibers is bundled by bundling members, and to suppress/prevent an increase in transmission loss even when tension is applied to the bundling members. This optical fiber unit includes: a plurality of optical fibers; and at least three bundling members that bundle the optical fibers into a bundle. A first bundling member, among the plurality of bundling members, is arranged along a length direction of the bundle of optical fibers so as to be wound on an outer circumference of the bundle of optical fibers. The first bundling member is joined with a second bundling member at a contact point where the first bundling member contacts the second bundling member, and is joined with a third bundling member, which is different from the second bundling member, at a contact point where the first bundling member contacts the third bundling member. The first bundling member's winding direction with respect to the bundle of optical fibers is reversed at the contact point with the second bundling member and at the contact point with the third bundling member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160223769A1 OPTICAL FIBER UNIT, OPTICAL FIBER BRANCHING METHOD, AND OPTICAL FIBER CABLE Public/Granted day:2016-08-04
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