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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Corning Optical Communications Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Inventors:
William Carl Hurley, Hickory, NC (US);
Samuel Don Navé, Newton, NC (US);
Assignee:
Corning Digital Communications LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/44 (2006.01); B29C 47/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/4411 (2013.01); G02B 6/4401 (2013.01); G02B 6/443 (2013.01); G02B 6/4434 (2013.01); B29C 47/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of making a subunit cable includes providing at least two subunits along a process direction, each subunit comprising a plurality of optical fibers, compressing the subunits so that at least one of the subunits has a cross-section with a minor outside dimension and a major outside dimension, and the ratio of the minor dimension to the major dimension is less than 0.9, and extruding a subunit cable jacket around the subunits, wherein the subunits are compressed within the subunit cable jacket.