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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2018
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Fumiaki Sato, Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Ishikawa, Osaka, JP;
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical fiber ribbon includes N pieces of optical fibers in a state of being disposed in parallel. At least some parts of the N pieces of optical fibers contact each other and are connected to each other by a resin; an outer diameter of the optical fiber is equal to or larger than 0.135 mm and equal to or smaller than 0.180 mm; a connection part connected by the resin or another resin and a non-connection part not connected by the resin or another resin are intermittently provided in a longitudinal direction between intermittently connected core wires of an optical fiber disposed at the Mth and an optical fiber disposed at the (M+1)th among the N pieces of optical fibers; the N is a multiple of 12; and the M is a multiple of 4.