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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:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Antonius Henricus Elisabeth Breuls, Urmond, NL;
Marinus Jacob De Fouw, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
Plasma Optical Fibre B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 2/524 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 2/524 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method of applying a protective organic coating to an optical glass fiber, said glass fiber is drawn from a preform and passed through a liquid which contains the material for forming said organic coating, once the amount of liquid coating material to be applied to the fiber has been adjusted, said coating matrial is hardened, while a gas is passed along the liquid wherein nitrous oxide (an N O-containing gas) is used as said gas. The invention also relates to the coated optical glass fiber, produced by that method.