Optical cable incorporating loose buffer tubes coated with a moi

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1996-06-10

1997-11-04

Palmer, Phan T.H.

Optical waveguides

Optical transmission cable

Loose tube type

385106, 385112, 385114, G02B 644

Patent

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056849044

ABSTRACT:
An optical fiber cable includes optical fibers loosely housed within a buffer tube. The buffer tube includes an inner coating, an outer coating, or both inner and outer coatings of moisture-absorptive material. The moisture-absorptive material may be a mixture of a moisture-absorptive powder and a thermoplastic resin; or a thermally crosslinked polymer; or a mixture of a moisture-absorptive resin and a resin cured by ultraviolet light.

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patent: 5388175 (1995-02-01), Clarke
patent: 5440660 (1995-08-01), Dombrowski et al.

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