Patent ID: 11927803
Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An intermittently connected optical fiber ribbon comprising:
optical fibers arranged side by side; and
connecting portions that connect adjacent two of the optical fibers to each other, wherein the intermittently connected optical fiber ribbon has:
connecting regions in which the connecting portions are intermittently arranged to intermittently connect the optical fibers to each other, and
a non-connecting region that is located between the connecting regions and in which the connecting portions are not disposed,

the connecting portions in each connecting region connect all of the optical fibers,
the connecting region includes connecting sections, each of which includes two or more of the connecting portions intermittently arranged in a width direction of the optical fiber ribbon,
a length of the non-connecting region in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber ribbon is larger than an interval between the connecting sections in the connecting region in the longitudinal direction, and
the length of the non-connecting region in the longitudinal direction is larger than a length of the connecting region in the longitudinal direction.