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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 13, 2021
Corning Research & Development Corporation, Corning, NY (US);
Joel Patrick Carberry, Big Flats, NY (US);
David Wesley Chiasson, Edmonton, CA;
Anping Liu, Horseheads, NY (US);
Eric Raymond Logan, Huntersville, NC (US);
Barada Kanta Nayak, Painted Post, NY (US);
Christopher Mark Quinn, Hickory, NC (US);
CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
An optical cable and method for forming an optical cable is provided. The cable includes a cable jacket including an inner surface defining a channel and an outer surface and also includes a plurality of optical fibers located within the channel. The cable includes a seam within the cable jacket that couples together opposing longitudinal edges of a wrapped thermoplastic sheet which forms the cable jacket and maintains the cable jacket in the wrapped configuration around the plurality of optical fibers. The method includes forming an outer cable jacket by wrapping a sheet of thermoplastic material around a plurality of optical core elements. The method includes melting together portions of thermoplastic material of opposing longitudinal edges of the wrapped sheet such that a seam is formed holding the sheet of thermoplastic material in the wrapped configuration around the core elements.