Optical Fiber Cable Spaced Adhesive Binding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional optical fiber cables tend to become tangled, disrupting their specific color-coded arrangement, which increases installation errors due to the lack of a secure binding mechanism for maintaining the ordered configuration during installation.
Innovation Solution
The optical fiber cable features a method where multiple optical fibers are arranged in juxtaposition with spaced-apart adhesive materials, such as epoxy, binding adjacent fibers in a manner that allows for a reticular structure when stretched, maintaining the color-coded order and preventing tangling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If optical fibers are arranged in specific color-coded order, then connection accuracy is improved, but the fibers tend to get tangled and lose arrangement during installation
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive material is applied in multiple spaced-apart locations along the optical fibers, creating multiple binding points that segment the binding function. This segmentation maintains the arrangement at different positions along the cable length, preventing tangling while preserving the color-coded order for accurate connection.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive material acts as an intermediary substance between adjacent optical fibers, binding them together at spaced-apart locations. This intermediary binding mechanism maintains the specific arrangement of fibers without requiring direct continuous contact, allowing the fibers to remain organized while preventing tangling during installation.
2Stability of the object's composition
If adhesive material is applied to bind optical fibers, then arrangement stability is improved, but the flexibility and ease of installation may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of applying adhesive material continuously or at every possible location, the invention applies it at selective spaced-apart positions. This partial application provides sufficient binding to maintain arrangement stability while leaving gaps that preserve flexibility and ease of handling during installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive material is applied locally at specific spaced-apart positions rather than uniformly along the entire length of the optical fibers. This localized binding provides arrangement stability where needed while maintaining flexibility and ease of installation in other regions.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution significantly reduces installation time and error rates by ensuring the optical fibers remain aligned and easily connectable to device ports, while also protecting them from damage with a wrapper.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of adhesive materials spaced-apart disposed on the optical fibers. Each of the adhesive materials binds adjacent ones of the optical fibers to one another
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AI summary
An optical fiber cable includes a plurality of optical fibers arranged in juxtaposition with one another, and a plurality of adhesive materials spaced-apart disposed on the optical fibers. Each of the adhesive materials binds adjacent ones of the optical fibers to one another in a number that is smaller than a total number of the optical fibers. A method for manufacturing the optical fiber cable includes arranging the optical fibers in juxtaposition with one another, and applying the adhesive materials to the optical fibers in a spaced-apart manner, such that each of the adhesive materials binds adjacent ones of the optical fibers.