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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:
Mar. 25, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 01, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Werner Gruber, Korschenbroich, DE;
Assignee:
Henkel Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, Duesseldorf, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ; C03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
427163 ; 65-311 ;
Abstract
A method for manufacturing sheathed high tensile strength optical waveguides having drawn glass fiber optical cores in which the cores are passed through a molten thermoplastic polyamide to form an adhering coating which is then cooled to form a uniform sheath. The sheath is flexible over a temperature range of -40.degree. C. to +80.degree. C. and the polyamide contains dimeric fatty acid as one of its monomer components and has a glass transition temperature below -10.degree. C.