Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yuya Homma

Itaru Sakabe

Kazuyuki Sohma

Kensaku Shimada

Katsushi Hamakubo

Tomoyuki Hattori

A resin composition for secondary coating of an optical fiber is a resin composition comprising: a photopolymerizable compound comprising a urethane (meth)acrylate having a number average molecular weight of 10000 or more and 40000 or less; and a photopolymerization initiator, the content of the urethane (meth)acrylate is 0.05 parts by mass or more and 15 parts by mass or less based on the total amount of the resin composition of 100 parts by mass, and the urethane (meth)acrylate is a reaction product of a polyol having a number average molecular weight of 1800 or more and 4500 or less, a diisocyanate, and a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate.

Resin composition, optical fiber, and method for producing optical fiber

A resin composition for secondary coating of an optical fiber is a resin composition comprising: a non-reactive urethane compound having a number average molecular weight of 10000 or more and 40000 or less, a photopolymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the content of the non-reactive urethane compound is 0.05 parts by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less based on the total amount of the resin composition of 100 parts by mass, and the non-reactive urethane compound is a reaction product of a polyol having a number average molecular weight of 1800 or more and 4500 or less, a diisocyanate, and a compound having active hydrogen.

A resin composition for the secondary coating of an optical fiber is a resin composition containing a non-reactive urethane compound having a number average molecular weight of 10000 or more and 50000 or less, a photopolymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator, the content of the non-reactive urethane compound is 0.05 parts by mass or more and 5 parts by mass or less based on the total amount of the resin composition, and the non-reactive urethane compound is a reaction product of a polyol having a number average molecular weight of 8000 or more and 20000 or less, a diisocyanate, and a compound having active hydrogen.

Resin composition, optical fiber, and method for producing optical fiber using polyol between 8000 and 20000 average molecular weight

A resin composition for secondary coating of an optical fiber comprises at least one polyoxyalkylene monoalkyl ether compound selected from the group consisting of a polyoxyalkylene monoalkyl ether having a number average molecular weight of 2500 or more and 10000 or less and a derivative of the polyoxyalkylene monoalkyl ether, a photopolymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator.

An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber comprising a core and a cladding, a primary resin layer being in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber, and a secondary resin layer covering the primary resin layer, wherein the Young's modulus of the primary resin layer is 0.04 MPa or more and 1.0 MPa or less at 23° C.±2° C., the secondary resin layer consists of a cured product of a resin composition comprising a base resin containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, and a photopolymerization initiator and hydrophobic inorganic oxide particles, and the content of the inorganic oxide particles is 1% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total amount of the resin composition.

Optical fiber

A resin composition comprises a base resin containing an urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer having a phenoxy group, and a photopolymerization initiator, and hydrophobic inorganic oxide particles, wherein the viscosity is 300 mPa&#xb7;s or more and 4200 mPa&#xb7;s or less at 45&#xb0; C. and the content of the monomer having a phenoxy group is 1% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less based on the total amount of the base resin.

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

A resin composition comprises a base resin containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer and a photopolymerization initiator, and a hydrophobized spherical inorganic oxide, wherein the inorganic oxide is dispersed in the resin composition and a content of the inorganic oxide is 1 to 60% by mass based on a total amount of the resin composition.

Resin composition and optical fiber

An optical fiber includes an optical transmission medium comprising a core and a cladding; a primary resin layer disposed in contact with the optical transmission medium to coat the optical transmission medium; and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer, and 1.1 ppm or less of a phosphorus compound and 2.5% by mass or less of a phenol compound based on the total amount of the primary resin layer are contained in the primary resin layer.

In an ultraviolet-curable resin composition for an optical fiber coating, the polarity parameter E(30) of the resin composition is 47 to 61.

Ultraviolet-curable resin composition and optical fiber

An optical fiber includes an optical transmission medium having a core and a cladding, a primary resin layer disposed in contact with the optical transmission medium to coat the optical transmission medium, and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer, wherein a Young's modulus of the primary resin layer is 0.5 MPa or less at 23&#xb0; C., and the primary resin layer comprises a cured product of an ultraviolet light curable resin composition containing a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and a &#x3b2;-diketone compound, and tin.

An optical fiber includes an optical transmission medium having a core and a cladding; a primary resin layer disposed in contact with the optical transmission medium to coat the optical transmission medium; and a secondary resin layer coating the primary resin layer, wherein the primary resin layer comprises a cured product of an ultraviolet light curable resin composition comprising a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer, a monomer and a photopolymerization initiator, and a compound containing phosphorus and tin as constituent atoms; and a Young's modulus of the primary resin layer is 0.5 MPa or less at 23&#xb0; C.

An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber which comprises a core and a cladding, a primary resin coating layer which covers the periphery of the glass fiber, and a secondary resin coating layer which covers the periphery of the primary resin coating layer. The glass fiber is a multimode fiber having a core diameter of 40-60 &#x3bc;m and a cladding diameter of 90-110 &#x3bc;m, and the primary resin coating layer is a layer formed by curing a curable resin composition which comprises oligomers, monomers, and a reaction initiator, the curable resin composition containing a one-end-capped oligomer in an amount of 30% by mass or larger based on all the oligomers.

An optical fiber comprises a glass fiber including a core and a cladding surrounding the core, a non-strippable resin layer that adheres to and covers a surface of the glass fiber, and a buffer layer that covers the non-strippable resin layer, when pullout force measurement in which a length of 10 mm of each of the glass fiber and the non-strippable resin layer is pulled out at a tensile speed of 5 mm/min from the buffer layer is performed, a pullout force at 23&#xb0; C. is 1.0 kg or less and a pullout force at 95&#xb0; C. is 0.50 kg or less.

Optical fiber and optical fiber ribbon

An optical fiber comprises a glass portion comprising a core and a cladding surrounding the core, and, a resin portion comprising a non-removable resin layer tightly covering the glass portion and comprising an ultraviolet curing resin and a buffer layer covering the non-removable resin layer and comprising an ultraviolet curing resin. A diameter of the core falls within a range from 20 &#x3bc;m or larger to 80 &#x3bc;m or smaller, and an outer diameter of the non-removable resin layer falls within a range from 120 &#x3bc;m or larger to 127 &#x3bc;m or smaller. In this optical fiber, when flexural rigidity of the glass portion is EI(g) and flexural rigidity of the resin portion is EI(r), EI(g)&#x2267;EI(r) is satisfied.

Optical fiber and optical fiber cable

An optical fiber cable comprises a plurality of optical fibers, tensile strength fibers that accommodate the plurality of optical fibers, and a sheath formed with a thermoplastic resin and covering the tensile strength resin. In this optical fiber cable, when a Young's modulus of the sheath at 0&#xb0; C. is E [MPa], a cross-sectional area of the optical fiber cable is S [mm] and an inner diameter of the sheath of the optical fiber cable is Di [mm], ES (0&#xb0; C.) [N] which is the product of the Young's modulus E at 0&#xb0; C. and the cross-sectional area S, and the inner diameter Di [mm] satisfy: 

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