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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1998
Michael Yang, NE Conover, NC (US);
Patrick Bourghelle, Hickory, NC (US);
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A method of manufacturing optical ribbons, wherein the optical fibers are paid out by an optical fiber pay-out unit, and grouped together in a nozzle where they are coated in a coating material which is caused to set in order to form an optical fiber ribbon. A plurality of groups of optical fibers are formed in parallel in as many nozzles as possible, and the groups of optical fibers, which are coated in a coating material, are caused to set simultaneously using a single setting means for setting the coating material, in order to form as many ribbons of optical fibers as possible, thereby enabling the manufacturing cost of a ribbon to be reduced.