Patents by Inventor Ted Lichoulas
Ted Lichoulas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20150212284Abstract: A connector housing apparatus for allowing field engineers or technicians to nm cable point to point, and to protect the connection in an environmentally sealed, crush resistant housing is provided. The connector housing apparatus includes a convector housing body, two sealing boots, two sealing elements, a fiber optic adapter, a fiber optic adapter insert that holds the fiber optic adapter and two fiber optic pigtails connected to two fiber optic cables. Each boot has two seal points. The first seal is between the fiber optic cable, the sealing element, and the tapered portion of the sealing boot. The second seal is between the interference lip on the sealing boot and the interference lip on the connector housing body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLCInventors: Ted Lichoulas, Eddie Kimbrell
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Publication number: 20150177466Abstract: A mechanism is provided for a fiber pigtail. The fiber pigtail includes a single mode fiber optic ribbon having a section of polymer ribbon removed to expose bare fibers, a fiber optic ferrule in contact with the single mode fiber optic ribbon at one distal end, and an integrated polymer lid permanently attached to the bare fibers of the single mode fiber optic ribbon at another distal end of the single mode fiber optic ribbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2015Publication date: June 25, 2015Inventors: Tymon Barwicz, Paul F. Fortier, Ted Lichoulas
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Patent number: 9051153Abstract: A spool including a barrel extending up from a bottom portion, a plurality of flanges extending from an outer circumferential surface of the barrel, a plurality of retaining arms extending up from an annular portion of the bottom portion, the annular portion extending radially away from the outer circumferential surface of the barrel, engagement mechanisms on at least one of the plurality of flanges and the plurality of retaining arms, wherein the engagement mechanisms cause the plurality of flanges and the plurality of retaining arms to become engaged, and a hinge on each of the plurality of retaining arms.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Ted Lichoulas, Eddie Kimbrell
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Patent number: 9020318Abstract: A conductor packaging assembly for packaging a plurality of conductors is provided. The assembly includes a housing and a plurality of connectors organized in the housing. The housing includes a first half and a second half hingedly attached with each other at one ends thereof and configured to removably attach with each other at their other ends to allow an open and closed position of the housing. Further, an inner strip is attached to the first half and/or the second half, a connector organizer is removably attached to the inner strip, and the connector organizer includes a plurality of connector mounting portions for removably attaching the plurality of connectors to the plurality of connector mounting portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Christopher Donaldson, Eddie Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas
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Publication number: 20140360777Abstract: A conduit fitting for connecting a conduit to a NID. The fitting includes a tube with an inner diameter and an outer diameter, and a flange at one end of the tube. The inner diameter is configured to provide a tight fit over a piping and the outer diameter is configured to provide a tight fit in a conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLCInventors: Eddie Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas
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Patent number: 8858092Abstract: Provided is an inner module for holding a plurality of connectors. The inner module includes a first cylindrical portion having a first outer wall spaced radially from a first inner wall to form an annular volume and a second cylindrical portion having a second outer wall spaced radially from a second inner wall to form an annular volume. The inner module also includes a connecting portion to connect the first cylindrical portion to the second cylindrical portion. Each of the first and second cylindrical portions have an opening in an axial direction having a width that is narrower than a distance between the first inner wall and the first outer wall.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Christopher Donaldson, Eddie Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas
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Publication number: 20140270652Abstract: A mechanism is provided for a fiber pigtail. The fiber pigtail includes a single mode fiber optic ribbon having a section of polymer ribbon removed to expose bare fibers, a fiber optic ferrule in contact with the single mode fiber optic ribbon at one distal end, and an integrated polymer lid permanently attached to the bare fibers of the single mode fiber optic ribbon at another distal end of the single mode fiber optic ribbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicants: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLC, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Tymon Barwicz, Paul F. Fortier, Ted Lichoulas
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Publication number: 20140248024Abstract: A pressure apparatus including a first end cap, a second end cap, a hollow housing connected to the first and second end caps, a locking ring connected to the second end cap, a first termination connected to the first end cap, and a second termination connected to the second end cap.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: TGS GEOPHYSICAL COMPANY (UK) LIMITED OF MILLBANK HOUSEInventors: Eddie Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas, John Toth
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Patent number: 8821030Abstract: Provided is a fiber packaging module that contains a plurality fiber optic connectors. The module includes an outer shell containing a plurality of fiber optic connectors connected to respective fiber optic cables. The module also includes a body comprised of a low density material disposed within the outer shell, the body having an outer side surface and an inner side surface. Also, a plurality of receiving portions are formed on the body to hold the fiber optic connectors.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Christopher Donaldson, Eddie Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas, Kyle Marchek
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Publication number: 20140233898Abstract: An armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal which connects a fiber optic cable—the fiber optic cable including one or more armor wires and one or more cable tubes—to a pressure housing, the armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal including: an armored termination which locks the one or more armor wires in a conical cavity; sealing paths which block water from traveling in the interstitial space between the one or more armor wires and the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing; and fiber feed-through tubes which block water from traveling in the interior of the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: TGS GEOPHYSICAL COMPANY (UK) LIMITEDInventors: Eddie Kimbrell, John Toth, Ted Lichoulas, Lou Guzzo
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Patent number: 8770525Abstract: A bracket for routing cables in a cable management system that has a mounting portion which is used to mount the bracket to the cable management system and is provided on a mounting end of the bracket. The bracket also has a holding portion that has a plurality of apertures which are to hold the cables. Each of the apertures are provided at a different distance from the mounting end of the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Christopher Donaldson, Ted Lichoulas, Lou Guzzo
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Publication number: 20140167411Abstract: A tube seal includes a tube through hole, a pressure housing tube seal penetration cavity for an elastomeric interference seal, a ferrule sealing surface for a ferrule, and an internal channel for a backing nut. A tube penetrates through the backing nut, the ferrule, the elastomeric interference seal and the tube through hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLCInventors: Eddie Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas, John Toth
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Patent number: 8693836Abstract: A packaging apparatus for packaging a bundle of conductors, such as optical fibers, includes a housing having two U-shaped halves that attach to one another wherein at least one of the halves includes connecting portions that each retain a connector of the conductors. The method includes attaching the connectors of the conductors to the connecting portions of one half, gathering the conductors at a location beyond an end of the first half, and attaching the second half to the first half. The conductors extend through a conductor insertion hole formed in the housing when the two halves are attached to one another. A plurality of packaging apparatuses can be flexibly attached to one another in series.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Eddie Kimbrell, Kyle Marchek, Ted Lichoulas
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Patent number: 8693825Abstract: A ferrule structure including a ferrule having an end face shape configured to incorporate at least a portion of a lens attached to an end of an optical fiber. The end face includes a cavity in which a circumference of the cavity is equal to or less than the outer diameter of the ferrule and larger than in inner diameter of an opening in the ferrule housing an optical fiber.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Chandraika (John) Sugrim, Daiichiro Tanaka, Lalitkumar Bansal, Ted Lichoulas, Lawrence Srutkowski
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Patent number: 8687933Abstract: The fiber optics patch panel assembly includes a pair of patch panels each having a base and a pair of first sides. A wall attachment portion is disposed on the base of each panel, and a mounting portion disposed on each of the first sides of each of the panels. A rack mounting bracket is attached to the mounting portion of one of the first sides of each of the panels. A panel attachment is attached to the mounting portion of an other of the first sides of each of the panels and attaches the panels to one another. A single panel can be wall-mounted, or rack mounted in a standard rack mount assembly using two panels and the rack mounting bracket, or mounted in a half-sized custom rack without needing any modifications.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Lawrence Srutkowski, Ted Lichoulas, Chuck Turner
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Publication number: 20140023126Abstract: An universal network interface device with an enclosure, an access module, a modem module, a switching power supply and a battery pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLCInventors: Ted Lichoulas, Eddie Kimbrell
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Patent number: 8565571Abstract: A conductor packaging apparatus for packaging a plurality of conductors includes an outer shell having two halves, and an inner shell removably disposed between the halves of the outer shell. The inner shell has two halves and a plurality of connector attachments disposed on an inner surface of at least one of the halves of the inner shell wherein the two halves of the outer shell are movably attached to one another between a closed position in which the connector attachments are enclosed by both the inner shell and the outer shell, and an open position in which the two halves of the outer shell are apart from one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2010Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: Eddie Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas, Kyle Marchek
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Publication number: 20130230291Abstract: An exterior distribution pedestal cabinet includes an enclosure having a top, a bottom and first and second sides extending between the top and the bottom, a door disposed on a front side of the enclosure, a cable management bracket within the enclosure, a plurality of splitter modules mounted within the enclosure at the cable management bracket, a connector holder bracket, a plurality of connector holders mounted at the connector holder bracket; and a pass-through connector adaptor plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS, LLCInventors: Ted Lichoulas, Lou Guzzo
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Publication number: 20130200193Abstract: A spool including a barrel extending up from a bottom portion, a plurality of flanges extending from an outer circumferential surface of the barrel, a plurality of retaining arms extending up from an annular portion of the bottom portion, the annular portion extending radially away from the outer circumferential surface of the barrel, engagement mechanisms on at least one of the plurality of flanges and the plurality of retaining arms, wherein the engagement mechanisms cause the plurality of flanges and the plurality of retaining arms to become engaged, and a hinge on each of the plurality of retaining arms.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: AFL TELECOMMUNICATIONS LLCInventors: Ted Lichoulas, Eddie Kimbrell
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Patent number: 8406413Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for splitting an input signal, the apparatus including a xDSL profile filter for filtering a first sub-signal from the input signal, the first sub-signal according to a xDSL profile, and outputting a xDSL profile output signal; a voice-band filter for filtering a second sub-signal from the input signal, the second sub-signal according to a voice frequency band, and outputting a voice-band output signal; and a user interface for selecting a xDSL profile mode, wherein the xDSL profile mode is consistent with one of a plurality of xDSL profiles, and wherein the xDSL profile filter filters the first sub-signal according to the xDSL profile mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: AFL Telecommunications LLCInventors: David Halverson, Edward Kimbrell, Ted Lichoulas