US 12,032,217 B2
Cable with interstitial fillers and edge ribbons
Kishore Sahoo, Gurugram (IN); Sravan Kumar, Gurugram (IN); Atulkumar Mishra, Gurugram (IN); Vikash Shukla, Gurugram (IN); Akhil Garg, Gurugram (IN); Hemanth Kondapalli, Gurugram (IN); Mahesh Deshpande, Gurugram (IN); Gahininath Shinde, Gurugram (IN); Venkatesh Murthy, Gurugram (IN); and Pramod Marru, Gurugram (IN)
Filed by Sterlite Technologies Limited, Gurgaon (IN)
Filed on Aug. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/987,797.
Claims priority of application No. 201911031933 (IN), filed on Aug. 7, 2019; and application No. 201911041285 (IN), filed on Oct. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0041655 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 6/44 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/4403 (2013.01) [G02B 6/441 (2013.01); G02B 6/4429 (2013.01); G02B 6/4432 (2013.01); G02B 6/4436 (2013.01); G02B 6/44384 (2023.05); G02B 6/4404 (2013.01); G02B 6/4431 (2023.05); G02B 6/4434 (2013.01); G02B 6/448 (2013.01); G02B 6/4483 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical fibre cable comprising:
a plurality of buffer tubes; and
a plurality of interstitial fillers arranged in spaces between the plurality of buffer tubes, wherein at least one interstitial filler of the plurality of interstitial fillers is coated with high density polyethylene, wherein a thickness of the high density polyethylene coating is less than or equal to 0.5 millimetre,
wherein the plurality of buffer tubes is arranged in at least two concentric layers of buffer tubes such that the plurality of interstitial fillers are arranged in at least one outer concentric layer of the at least two concentric layers of buffer tubes.