Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Noriaki Iwaguchi

Takashi Fujii

Kumiko Tachibana

Katsushi Hamakubo

Masuo Iida

Fumiaki Sato

Takashi Takada

Chiaki Tokuda

Haruki Okuyama

Tatsuya Konishi

Kazuyuki Sohma

Takahisa Yamaguchi

Ken Takahashi

Yoshinori Yamamoto

Yoshiaki Nagao

Kentaro Okamoto

Kazuya Tokuda

Tsuguo Amano

Takehiko Kawano

An optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the optical fibers, and a collective coating covering outer peripheries of the plurality of optical fibers. The collective coating includes a connected portion at which the optical fibers adjacent to each other are connected in at least a part of the plurality of optical fibers. An outer diameter of each of the plurality of optical fibers is 215 μm or less, and a dynamic friction force of the collective coating is 0.3 N or less.

Optical fiber ribbon

An optical fiber ribbon comprises a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel and a connecting resin layer containing a ribbon resin for coating and connecting the plurality of optical fibers, wherein each of the plurality of optical fibers has an outer diameter of 220 μm or less; and the ribbon resin contains a cured product of urethane (meth)acrylate, and an amount of silicon is 5 ppm or more and 80000 ppm or less and an amount of tin is 5 ppm or more and 30000 ppm or less at the surface of the connecting resin layer.

Optical fiber ribbon and optical fiber cable

The optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, a primary resin layer in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer covering the primary resin layer, wherein the primary resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and an aromatic acid compound, a content of the aromatic acid compound is 20 ppm or more and 12000 ppm or less based on a total amount of the resin composition, and Young's modulus of the primary resin layer is 0.6 MPa or less at 23° C.±2° C.

Optical fiber

The resin composition according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a resin composition containing a photopolymerizable compound comprising urethane (meth)acrylate and a polyrotaxane, and a photopolymerization initiator, and the content of the polyrotaxane is 0.05% by mass or more and 11% by mass or less based on the total amount of the photopolymerizable compound.

Resin composition, secondary coating material for optical fiber, optical fiber, and method for manufacturing optical fiber

An optical fiber ribbon comprises a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel and a connecting resin layer containing a ribbon resin for coating and connecting the plurality of optical fibers, wherein each of the plurality of optical fibers has an outer diameter of 220 &#x3bc;m or less; each of the plurality of optical fibers includes a glass fiber, a primary resin layer, and a colored secondary resin layer; the colored secondary resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenylphosphine oxide; and a content of phosphorus in the colored secondary resin layer is 0.03 mass % or more and 0.30 mass % or less, and an amount of a phosphorus-tin complex at the surface of the colored secondary resin layer is 300 ppm or more and 7000 ppm or less.

The present disclosure relates to a resin composition for coating an optical fiber, the resin composition including: a base resin that contains an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator; and inorganic oxide particles, in which the inorganic oxide particles include a plurality of particle groups having different volume average particle sizes, and the volume average particle size is measured by small-angle X-ray scattering.

Resin composition, secondary coating material for optical fiber, optical fiber, and method for producing optical fiber

An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer, wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer being in contact with the glass fiber and coating the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer, and the primary resin layer and the secondary resin layer are resin layers containing inorganic oxide particles.

An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, and a coating resin layer covering the outer periphery of the glass fiber, wherein the coating resin layer has a primary resin layer being in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber and a secondary resin layer covering the outer periphery of the primary resin layer, the secondary resin layer comprises hydrophobic spherical silica particles, and the content of the silica particles is 7% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total amount of the secondary resin layer, and the absolute value of the surface potential of the optical fiber is 10 mV or more and 60 mV or less.

A method for manufacturing an optical fiber includes: a coating step of forming a first layer by applying a first ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto a glass fiber, and then, of forming a second layer by applying a second ultraviolet ray curable resin composition onto the first layer; a first irradiation step of curing the first layer and the second layer by irradiating the first layer and the second layer with an ultraviolet ray, and of obtaining the optical fiber including a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer; and a second irradiation step of irradiating the optical fiber with an ultraviolet ray at an illuminance of less than or equal to one tenth of an illuminance in the first irradiation step for an irradiation time of longer than or equal to 10 times an irradiation time in the first irradiation step.

Method for manufacturing optical fiber

A method for manufacturing an optical fiber is a method for manufacturing an optical fiber including a glass fiber, and a coating resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber. The method includes a step of increasing a dissolved oxygen concentration in an ultraviolet ray curable resin composition, a step of applying the ultraviolet ray curable resin composition, in which the dissolved oxygen concentration is increased, onto the glass fiber, and a step of curing the ultraviolet ray curable resin composition by irradiating the ultraviolet ray curable resin composition that is applied onto the glass fiber with an ultraviolet ray.

Method for manufacturing optical fiber with oxygen-strengthened UV-resin coating

Provided is an intermittently coupled-type optical fiber ribbon in which, in a state where a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel, coupling portions at which adjacent optical fibers are coupled by a coupling resin and non-coupling portions at which the adjacent optical fibers are not coupled are intermittently provided in a longitudinal direction, the coupling portions and the on-coupling portions being provided between some or all of the plurality of optical fibers, in which at least some of the non-coupling portions include a convex portion of the coupling resin, a tip end of the convex portion having an acute angle in a cross-sectional view in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction.

Intermittent connection-type optical fiber tape core wire, optical fiber cable, and method for manufacturing intermittent connection-type optical fiber tape core wire

An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber; a primary resin layer coating an outer periphery of the glass fiber; and a secondary resin layer coating an outer periphery of the primary resin layer, and a pH of the primary resin layer is greater than a pH of the secondary resin layer.

Optical fiber and method for manufacturing optical fiber

An optical fiber includes a glass fiber that includes a core and a cladding and a coating resin layer that coats the glass fiber by being in contact with the glass fiber. The coating resin layer includes a cured material of an ultraviolet ray curable resin composition having a dissolved oxygen concentration of greater than or equal to 8.5 mg/L.

Optical fiber and ultraviolet ray curable resin composition

An optical fiber includes a glass fiber and a coating resin layer with which the glass fiber is covered, wherein the coating resin layer includes tin and a cured ultraviolet curable resin composition containing 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenyl phosphine as a photoinitiator, a percentage of uncured components having a molecular weight of 1000 or less included in the coating resin layer is 15% by mass or less, and a fraction of an amount of a phosphorus-tin complex with respect to an amount of hydrocarbon on the surface of coating resin layer is 1000 ppm or less.

An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber and a coating resin layer covering the glass fiber, the coating resin layer having a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer, the primary resin layer comprising a cured resin composition obtained by curing a resin composition comprising an oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the oligomer is a reaction product of a polyol compound, an isocyanate compound, and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate compound; a proportion of a primary hydroxyl group of hydroxyl groups included in the polyol compound is 3.5% or less; and a Young's modulus of the secondary resin layer at &#x2212;40&#xb0; C. is 1780 MPa or more.

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Noriaki Iwaguchi