Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Central Glass Company, Limited

Shigeki Katsuta

Shinichi Teshima

Kazuhiko Maeda

Toshio Koishi

Taku Yamauchi

Hajime Munekuni

Multicore plastic optical fiber for light signal transmission

A cladding material for plastic optical fiber comprising a vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-hexafluoroacetone copolymer which comprises 3.5 to 6.5% by mole of hexafluoroacetone units, a molar ratio of vinylidene fluoride unit to trifluoroethylene unit of 3 to 6:1, and a melt index of 10 to 60 g/10 min, and a plastic optical fiber comprising said cladding material and a methyl methacrylate homopolymer or copolymer which comprises over 50% by weight of methyl methacrylate units as the core material.

Cladding material for plastic optical fiber and plastic optical fiber

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Yokohama, Japan

Shigeki Katsuta