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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2018
Prysmian S.p.a., Milan, IT;
Ben H. Wells, Columbia, SC (US);
Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Lexington, SC (US);
Brian G. Risch, Granite Falls, NC (US);
Clint Nicholaus Anderson, Lexington, SC (US);
John R. Sach, Lexington, SC (US);
Jeffrey Scott Barker, Claremont, NC (US);
PRYSMIAN S.P.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
An optical cable includes a plurality of deformable buffer tubes and an outer jacket surrounding the plurality of deformable buffer tubes. Each deformable buffer tube of the plurality of deformable buffer tubes includes a single flexible ribbon including a plurality of optical fibers. Each deformable buffer tube further includes an axial cross-section of the deformable buffer tube that includes the single flexible ribbon. The axial cross-section comprises an irregular shape.