Optical cable
CA 2014360 C · Owner: Bicc Public Limited Company · Inventors: Spedding, Stephen Thomas
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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In a slotted core optical cable in which each slot contains stacked optical fibre ribbons the cost of the, cable can be reduced and cooling of the slotted core during manufacture of the cable is facilitated as compared with an optical cable in which the slots of the slotted core are all of the same depth by forming the circumferentially spaced slots into two groups the, slots of each group being of the same depth as one another and the depth of each of the slots 3 of one group being greater than the depth of each of the slots 4 of the other group, and by arranging for each slot 3 to be disposed between two slots 4. The number of optical fibre ribbons 5 stacked in each of the slots 3 is …
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- Filed April 11, 1990 and granted October 18, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 11, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 11, 2012.
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