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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1982
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Iwao Matsuyama, Sagamihara, JP;
Kenzo Susa, Hinodemachi, JP;
Tsuneo Suganuma, Tokorozawa, JP;
Shin Satoh, Iruma, JP;
Toshio Katsuyama, Kokubunji, JP;
Hidehito Obayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
65 32 ; 65 22 ; 65134 ; 501 12 ; 252317 ;
Abstract
A process for producing a mother rod useful for the production of an optical fiber which comprises hydrolyzing a silicon alkoxide to prepare a gel of a desired shape, and drying and sintering the gel to produce a block made of a silica glass. The process has the advantages that it is well adapted for mass-production, that a glass made of a B.sub.2 O.sub.3 --SiO.sub.2 system may be produced thereby and that a glass block of arbitrary shape may be readily produced.