US Patent Issued to SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS on March 3 for "Loose tube-type optical cable production device and production method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,992, issued on March 3, was assigned to SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Loose tube-type optical cable production device and production method" was invented by Kengo Tanabe (Kawasaki, Japan), Junya Hasunuma (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuki Ota (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hitoshi Saito (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a production device for a loose tube-type optical cable in which an optical fiber bundle is housed in a tube. The production device includes: a resin extruder configured to extrude and coat a resin onto the optical fiber bundle; and a water tank configured to store cooling water fo...