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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2016
Corning Optical Communications Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Bradley Jerome Blazer, Granite Falls, NC (US);
Yangbin Chen, Lima, NY (US);
Ching-Kee Chien, Horseheads, NY (US);
Julian Latelle Greenwood, III, Hickory, NC (US);
Jason Clay Lail, Conover, NC (US);
Warren Welborn McAlpine, Hickory, NC (US);
Christopher Mark Quinn, Hickory, NC (US);
David Alan Seddon, Hickory, NC (US);
Corning Optical Communications LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
An optical cable is provided. The optical cable includes a tubular, elongate body having an inner surface defining a cavity extending between first and second ends of the elongate body and an optical transmission element located with the cavity. The optical cable includes a coupling or bonding structure non-permanently and non-rigidly joining the outer surface of the optical transmission element to the elongate body at a plurality of periodic contact zones such that relative movement between the optical transmission element and the elongate body is resisted.