Patent ID: 9086555
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G02B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A manufacturing method of an optical fiber ribbon, in which a plurality of optical fibers are arranged in parallel to one another, wherein each of the plurality of optical fibers is coated with a coating resin, and the plurality of optical fibers are fixed to one another intermittently along a longitudinal direction thereof, the manufacturing method comprising: coating the plurality of optical fibers, each of which is coated with the coating resin, with an uncured ultraviolet resin intermittently along the longitudinal direction at a time of sending the plurality of optical fibers out from a coating dice; and connecting the plurality of optical fibers to one another intermittently along the longitudinal direction by curing the uncured ultraviolet resin to form adhered portions, wherein a Young's modulus of the coating resin is 300 MPa or more.