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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:
Jun. 27, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 15, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Rayon Company Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
350 9624 ; 350 9625 ;
Abstract
A multifilament type plastic optical fiber having a substantially rectangular cross-section and an islands-in-the-sea structure in which 100 to 10,000 islands are arranged in the sea, wherein the respective islands have a substantially circular cross-section and a core-sheath structure, the islands are arranged in a sigzag-stacked structure, the core occupancy ratio in the multifilament type optical fiber cores section is at least 50% and the brightness index value I which is defined by the following (1), is at least 4.5.times.10.sup.-2 :