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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2020
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Bradley Jerome Blazer, Granite Falls, NC (US);
David Alan Seddon, Hickory, NC (US);
Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare, Hickory, NC (US);
Kenneth Darrell Temple, Jr., Newton, NC (US);
Brandon Robert Williamson, Johnson City, TN (US);
CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber cable includes a jacket and a plurality of stranded core subunits, each core subunit comprising a flexible sheath and a plurality of ribbons arranged in a ribbon group, wherein each ribbon of the plurality of ribbons comprises a plurality of connected fibers such that 50-70% of the cross-sectional area inside the sheath is occupied by the connected fibers. The flexible sheath may be an extruded PVC material that conforms to the shape of the ribbon stack and keeps all of the ribbons acting as a unitary body during bending.