US Patent Issued to SWCC on Sept. 15 for "Manufacturing method for optical fiber tape core wire and manufacturing apparatus for optical fiber tape core wire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,545, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SWCC Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Manufacturing method for optical fiber tape core wire and manufacturing apparatus for optical fiber tape core wire" was invented by Takeshiro Nagai (Kawasaki, Japan), Takehiko Yamamoto (Kawasaki, Japan), Wataru Noro (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yuki Ota (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a manufacturing method for an optical fiber tape core wire (10) including: coating a plurality of optical fibers (20) with a resin in an uncured state; removing, by a removal part (120), the resin in the uncured state partially; and curing the remaining resin i...