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Method and apparatus for manufacturing an optical ribbon conductor

US5486378A · kind A · utility

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3References

39Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Ulrich Oestreich · Munich, DE
Peter Dotzer · Munich, DE
Siegfried Unterberger · Coburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 11, 1993
Grant date	Jan 23, 1996
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 11, 2013

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG02B6/448
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A plurality of light waveguides are conducted side-by-side through a coating arrangement that will surround the waveguides and supply them with a coating material for enclosing the light waveguides to form a ribbon conductor. The light waveguides are guided freely running both proceeding as in the coating arrangement so that they essentially come into contact only with the coating material. A drag flow or entrained flow of the liquid coating material contributes to a self-centering of the light waveguides and is produced by the longitudinal motion of the light waveguides in the coating material of the arrangement.

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