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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 21, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas M Jackson, Bishops Stortford, GB;
Rudolf A Heinecke, Harlow, GB;
Sureshchandra M Ojha, Harlow, GB;
Assignee:
Standard Telephones and Cables, London, US;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427 40 ; 350 9633 ; 350 9634 ; 427 41 ; 427163 ;
Abstract
An optical fibre is provided with a moisture barrier layer by exposing a plastics coating on the fibre to a pulsed plasma in order to modify the surface, for instance by implantation of silicon and/or by the deposition on the plastics layer an inorganic layer such as a non-stoichiometric composition of silicon and carbon or silicon and nitrogen.