Patent ID: 8472768

Claim:
A plastic optical fiber cable, comprising: a multi-core plastic optical fiber strand comprising: island parts made up of 37 or more and 10000 or less cores each formed of a transparent resin and of at least one cladding layer surrounding each of the cores and formed of a transparent resin with a refractive index lower than that of the transparent resin forming the cores; and a sea part surrounding each of the island parts and formed of a resin; and a coating layer on an outside of the sea part, which surrounds the multi-core plastic optical fiber strand, wherein the transparent resin forming the cores is poly(methyl methacrylate)-based resin, wherein the resin forming the cladding layer is tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene/vinylidene fluoride copolymer having a Shore D hardness of 25 or more and 55 or less, wherein the resin forming the sea part is vinylidene fluoride/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer; wherein the resin forming the coating layer is nylon 12 having a flexural modulus of 500 MPa or more and 2000 MPa or less; and wherein the multi-core plastic optical fiber strand has an outside diameter of 0.1 mm or more and 0.4 mm or less.