Light waveguides having at least two coatings composed of plastic material

• US 6,026,208 A
• Filed: 04/30/1998
• Issued: 02/15/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CCS Technology Inc. (Corning Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Will, Horst, Dzyck, Wolfgang, Pfeuffer, Arnold, Hutschgau, Klaus-Dieter, Nowsch, Helmut, Kundis, Dieter
• Primary Examiner(s): Palmer, Phan T. H.
• Application Number:
  US09/070,254
• Time in Patent Office: 656 Days
• Field of Search: 385/128, 385/122, 385/123, 385/124, 385/125, 385/126, 385/127
• US Class Current: 385/128
• CPC Class Codes: C03C 25/1065 Multiple coatings
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4403 with ribbon structure G02B6/4429, G02B6/4439, G02B6/4479 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/443 Protective covering
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4436 Heat resistant

Abstract

A solid optical lead formed by a light waveguide having at least two coatings composed of plastic material having an outer layer which is applied directly on the inner layer and is constructed as a flame-retardant layer. The outer layer is constructed as a halogen-free material and comprises an additive that will prevent an adhesion between the outer layer and the inner layer and, thus, assures a good strippability of the outer layer from the inner layer.

Claims

1. A solid optical lead comprising a light waveguide having at least one inner layer of plastic material and an outer layer of plastic material applied directly on the inner layer, said outer layer being a flame-retardant layer constructed of a halogen-free material and the outer layer having an additive to the material of the outer layer to prevent an adhesion between the inner layer and the outer layer and to provide a good strippability of the outer layer from the inner layer, said additive being a halogen-free material.

2. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the outer layer contains between 0.1 and 10 weight % of the additive.

3. A solid optical lead according to claim 2, wherein the outer layer contains between 0.1 and 5 weight % paraffin as the additive.

4. A solid optical lead according to claim 3, wherein the outer layer contains between 0.5 and 10 weight % of a silicone compound as part of the additive.

5. A solid optical lead according to claim 2, wherein the additive is between 0.5 and 10 weight percent of a silicone compound.

6. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the additive is a silicone additive.

7. A solid optical lead according to claim 6, wherein the silicone additive is selected from a group consisting of siloxane and polysiloxane.

8. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the outer layer contains a polyethylene.

9. A solid optical lead according to claim 8, wherein the polyethylene is a high-density polyethylene.

10. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the outer layer contains a polymethylmethacrylate.

11. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the material of the outer layer contains a mixture of polymethylmethacrylate and butylacrylate.

12. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the outer layer contains a butylacrylate.

13. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the outer layer contains an ethylene-vinyl acetate.

14. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the additive is a paraffin.

15. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the additive is a fatty acid ester.

16. A solid optical lead according to claim 1, wherein the outer layer contains ethylene-propylene copolymer.

17. A solid optical lead comprising a light waveguide having at least one inner layer of plastic material and an outer layer of plastic material applied directly on the inner layer, said outer layer being a flame-retardant layer constructed of a halogen-free material and the halogen-free material of the outer layer having a halogen-free additive mixed therein to prevent an adhesion between the inner layer and the outer layer and to provide a good strippability of the outer layer from the inner layer.

18. A solid optical lead according to claim 17, wherein the additive is selected from a group consisting of a fatty ester acid, silicone and paraffin.