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Article: Shin-Etsu Chemical to Obtain License from OFS for Use of Patent in Making Preform with Low-Water-Peak Fiber by Cladding VAD Core.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- September 9, 2009
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OFS (Head office: Atlanta, GA, USA, CEO and Chairman: Timothy Murray) and Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan, President and CEO: Chihiro Kanagawa) announce that OFS has agreed to license OFS' U.S. Patent No. 6,131,415 and its foreign counterparts to Shin-Etsu . This patent relates to the method of manufacture of preforms with a soot based core rod, such as Vapor Axial Deposition (VAD) and synthetic overclad cylinder glass to provide low water peak fiber performance (see also OFS).
This patented preform process is used to manufacture OFS's AllWave ZWP fibers which exceed the industry's most stringent and comprehensive table of ...