COMPOSITION AND OPTICAL FIBER COATED THEREWITH

• Main Authors: HALE ARTURO, BLYLER LEE LANDIS JR, PATEL SANJAY
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.02.1999
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES, OR VITREOUSENAMELS; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; CHEMISTRY; COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES ORLACQUERS; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; CORRECTING FLUIDS; DYES; FILLING PASTES; GLASS; INKS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; METALLURGY; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PAINTS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; PHYSICS; POLISHES; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS,MINERALS OR SLAGS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR; WOODSTAINS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an optical fiber improved in the adhesive force between the glass and a photocurable coating film. SOLUTION: This composition comprises a photocurable or electron beam- curable composition and a setting agent, being useful for producing coated optical fibers; wherein the setting agent bears an alkoxysilane functional group bound via the long main chain to the reactive group copolymerizable with the photocurable or electron beam-curable composition; the alkoxy-substituted organosilane group-contg. compound is conjugatedly bound to a relatively long molecule having (meth)acrylate functional group; as part of the photocurable coating material, the long chain raises the adhesive force of the coating material to a glass substrate through conjugatedly binding a high-molecular network texture to the glass substrate.