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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2004
Mark Bertz, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Robert C. Moore, Roswell, GA (US);
John M. Turnipseed, Lilburn, GA (US);
Shunhe Xiong, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Mark Bertz, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Robert C. Moore, Roswell, GA (US);
John M. Turnipseed, Lilburn, GA (US);
Shunhe Xiong, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Fueukawa Electric North America, Inc., Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention include a system and method for color-coating an optical fiber. The system includes a flow controller that controllably delivers and mixes color concentrate from one or more color concentrate reservoirs with a coating material, which colored coating material is fed to a coating die through which optical fiber passes. The color concentrate reservoirs are more compact and can be made portable along with the flow controller. Thus, the entire color coating system can travel to any appropriate location in the fiber manufacturing facility, e.g., at any one of a number of draw towers. Such portability allows many different colors to be used at the same draw tower much more easily than conventional arrangements, which typically only have one color line per draw tower. The method includes providing an optical fiber, controllably delivering color concentrate with a coating material to a coating die, coating the optical fiber with the coating die, and curing the coated fiber.