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Cable having ribbon stack in a hexagonal arrangement

US11971592B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 31, 2020
Grant dateApr 30, 2024
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Expiry dateOct 9, 2041

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02E40/60
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for stacking a plurality of optical fibre ribbons in an optical fibre cable. The method includes a step of arranging a plurality of optical fibre ribbon stacks in a hexagonal arrangement in the optical fibre cable. The method may further include stacking the plurality of optical fibre ribbons to form an optical fibre ribbon stack such that the optical fibre ribbon stack may have a parallelogram shape. Each optical fibre ribbon is placed at an offset from adjacent optical fibre ribbon. The optical fibre ribbon stack may have a stack height. In addition, each optical fibre ribbon of the plurality of optical fibre ribbons may have a ribbon height. The hexagonal arrangement may have the packaging density greater than 80%.

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