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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2014
Corning Optical Communications Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Adra Smith Baca, Rochester, NY (US);
Anne Germaine Bringuier, Taylorsville, NC (US);
Christopher Mark Quinn, Hickory, NC (US);
Lori Ann Seeley, Penn Yan, NY (US);
Brandon Robert Williamson, Hickory, NC (US);
Corning Optical Communications LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
A fiber optic assembly includes a buffer tube forming an elongate passage and a plurality of optical fibers positioned therein. The buffer tube includes at least one layer of a composite material that includes a base material and a filler material blended therein. Particles of the filler material have an acicular structure, having a longest dimension that is on average at least ten times a narrowest dimension of the particles. Further the buffer tube has kink resistance.