Plural Unit Type (plural Complete Cables Within A Single Outside Sheath) Patents (Class 385/106)
  • Patent number: 11650408
    Abstract: A true-seeing infrared industrial endoscope endoscope includes an external shell protective unit including a housing and an electrical appliance component box connected to a rear end of the housing. A cavity of the housing is provided with a dual capturing-imaging unit including at least two capturing-imaging subunits. Each of the capturing-imaging subunits includes a light splitter, an image capturing lens, an infrared imaging tube, and a visible light imaging tube. The electrical appliance component box is provided with a communication module and a power supply electrically connected to the dual capturing-imaging unit and the communication module. The communication module is communicatively connected to the dual capturing-imaging unit and an upper computer via a communication bus, and the power supply is electrically connected to the dual capturing-imaging unit via a power bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Zhaohui Jiang, Jilin Zhu, Zhipeng Chen, Weihua Gui, Yongfang Xie, Chunhua Yang, Haifeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11054548
    Abstract: A plastic optical fiber including a first cladding; a first core forming a first sea portion inside the first cladding; and a first island portion formed inside the first core with at least an outer periphery having a lower refractive index than the first sea portion, wherein the first core includes a polymethyl methacrylate-based resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI KASEI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Koshi Okita
  • Patent number: 10882783
    Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon is intermittently connected in a length direction by an intermittent connection which includes a polyol having a weight-average molecular weight of 3000 to 4000 in a specific amount relative to the entire intermittent connection and which has Young's modulus at 23° C. within a specific range. When collectively unitizing optical fiber ribbons to form an optical fiber cable, an optical fiber ribbon is formed which maintains advantages of the optical fiber ribbon and which prevents cracks of the intermittent connection and detachment of the intermittent connection from a colored optical fiber core when the cable is subjected to repetitive ironing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tanaka, Yutaka Hoshino, Hirotaka Watanabe, Yoshihiro Arashitani, Kenji Yokomizo, Tomohiro Ishimura
  • Patent number: 10768384
    Abstract: A highly packed, low bend loss optical cable is provided. The cable includes an outer cable jacket and a plurality of buffer tubes surrounded by the cable jacket. Each buffer tube includes an inner surface defining a channel having a diameter, D1, and an outer surface facing an inner surface of the cable jacket. The cable includes a plural number, N, of optical fibers, located within the channel of each buffer tube and surrounded by the inner surface of the buffer tube. Each optical fiber has an outer diameter, D2. The N optical fibers are densely packed within each buffer tube such that a diameter ratio parameter, ?, is defined as the ratio D1/D2, and is 2.25+0.143(N)???1.14+0.313(N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Dana Craig Bookbinder, Inna Igorevna Kouzmina, Ming-Jun Li, David Alan Seddon, Pushkar Tandon
  • Patent number: 10644488
    Abstract: A wire assembly that is provided in a vehicle or the like includes a flexible wire, and a rigid wire. The rigid wire is made of a rigid material and has a recess portion extending along a longitudinal direction of the rigid wire. The flexible wire is disposed in the recess portion of the rigid wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Kawakami
  • Patent number: 10598882
    Abstract: Cables have dielectric armor with an armor profile that resembles conventional metal armored cable. The armor can be formed as a single layer, without requiring an outer jacket layer. The dielectric armor provides additional crush and impact resistance for the optical fibers and/or fiber optic assembly therein. The armored cables recover substantially from deformation caused by crush loads. Additionally, the armored fiber optic assemblies can have any suitable flame and/or smoke rating for meeting the requirements of the intended space. The assemblies can additionally be lightweight and relatively inexpensive to manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Blake Bohler, Julian Latelle Greenwood, III, Keith Aaron Greer, Wesley Brian Nicholson, Kimberly Dawn Slan
  • Patent number: 10571634
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for furcating fiber optic cables are provided. In some embodiments, a molded array of furcation tubes is generated by compressing rearward portions of a plurality of furcation tubes together and heating at least a portion of the rearward portions to form a molded portion of the molded array. Reinforcing filaments can be bonded into and/or throughout the molded portion. The molded portion can have a plurality of internal chambers, each in communication with a separate furcation tube of the molded array, in which optic fibers can be slidably retained. The molded portion can be fixedly coupled to a housing, which in turn, can be coupled to a cable trunkline. Optic fibers can slide longitudinally within the trunkline, housing, and molded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: AFL IG LLC
    Inventors: Terry Kleeberger, Artur Bureacov
  • Patent number: 10488610
    Abstract: An optical fiber unit includes: an optical fiber bundle formed by bundling a plurality of optical fibers; and a plurality of bundling members. One bundling member of the plurality of bundling members is wound on an outer circumference of the optical fiber bundle in a length direction of the optical fiber bundle, while reversing a winding direction alternately, and is joined to another bundling member at a section where the winding direction is reversed. A ratio of a width of a cross-section of the bundling member to a thickness of the cross-section of the bundling member is smaller than 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Ito, Ken Osato, Masayoshi Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10444461
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for manufacturing a fiber optic cable breakout assembly comprising a molded array of furcation tubes are provided. In some embodiments, a pin retainer is connected to a plurality of pins for use in facilitating heat transfer to furcation tubes and influencing a structural arrangement of a molded array of the furcation tubes. The pin retainer can be removably connected to a pull arm on a heating system for heating molding the furcation tubes, and the pull arm can be automatically retracted after a molding process is complete, to withdraw the pins from the molded array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: AFL IG LLC
    Inventors: Artur Bureacov, Terry M. Kleeberger
  • Patent number: 10238364
    Abstract: The invention relates to ultrasound imaging method and apparatus suitable for minimally invasive ultrasound diagnostic devices in cardiac ablation monitoring and in tumor ablation monitoring. The present invention proposes to manufacture a transducers assembly and system on a patterned flexible foil by embedding transducers patches in apertures on the foil surface. This provides great control of the acoustic properties of the transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Szabolcs Deladi, Cornelius Antonius Nicolaas Maria Van Der Vleuten, Antonius Johannes Josephus Rademakers
  • Patent number: 10185093
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for furcating fiber optic cables are provided. In some embodiments, a molded furcation tube array is generated by compressing rearward end portions of a plurality of furcation tubes together, and heating at least a portion of the rearward end portions to form a molded portion of the furcation tube array. Reinforcing filaments can be bonded into and/or throughout the molded portion. The molded portion can have internal chambers in communication with separate furcation tubes of the furcation tube array, in which optic fibers can be slidably retained, and the molded portion can be fixedly coupled to a housing, which in turn, can be coupled to a cable trunkline. Optic fibers can piston or slide longitudinally within the trunkline housing and molded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: AFL IG LLC
    Inventors: Terry Kleeberger, Artur Bureacov
  • Patent number: 9971093
    Abstract: Optical splitter modules and methods are disclosed. An optical splitter module includes a housing, a splitter chip, a plurality of optical fibers, and a base member. An outer coating of the optical fibers is stripped from the first end such that the first end has a bare portion extending from a fiber end and a stripped portion extending from the bare portion. The second end of each optical fiber has the outer coating with a diameter larger than the diameter of the stripped portion. A connector is coupled to the second end of each optical fiber. A fan-out body surrounds the coating of the optical fibers. The optical fibers are coupled to the surface of the base member such that the fiber end is positioned at the first edge of the base member. The first edge of the base member is coupled to the first edge of the splitter chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventor: Elli Makrides-Saravanos
  • Patent number: 9891397
    Abstract: Multi-fiber, fiber optic cables and cable assemblies providing constrained optical fibers within an optical fiber sub-unit are disclosed. The optical fiber sub-unit(s) comprises optical fibers disposed adjacent a sub-unit strength member(s) within a sub-unit jacket. Movement of optical fibers within a sub-unit jacket can be constrained. In this manner, the optical fibers in an optical fiber sub-unit can be held together within the optical fiber sub-unit as a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: William Carl Hurley, Wesley Allan Yates
  • Patent number: 9703064
    Abstract: Durable optical fiber ribbons are formed by promoting a strong bond between fiber ink layers and ribbon matrix material. During curing of the ink layer desired oxygen levels are maintained in the curing environment of the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Julie Ann Chalk, Gregory Alan Mills, Joel Laine Parker
  • Patent number: 9677956
    Abstract: Fiber optic cables with improved performance for use in distributed sensing, for instance in distributed acoustic sensors, are disclosed. In one embodiment a fiber optic cable (210) comprises a core (208) and cladding (206) disposed within a buffer material (202) and surrounded by a jacket (204) and arranged so that the core is offset from the center of the cable. By offsetting the core from the center of the jacket any bending effects on the core can be maximised compared with the core being located at the center of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: OPTASENSE HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: David John Hill, Magnus McEwen-King, Roger Ian Crickmore
  • Patent number: 9640302
    Abstract: A cable with a molded resin includes a cable including an electric wire and a sheath covering the electric wire, the electric wire including a central conductor and an insulation covering the central conductor, and a molded resin covering a part of the electric wire protruding from the sheath in a longitudinal direction thereof, the molded resin being apart from the sheath. The electric wire is bent at not less than one bent part in the molded resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takahashi, Masanori Sagawa, Yukio Ikeda, Takahiro Futatsumori
  • Patent number: 9182562
    Abstract: The specification relates to a fiber optic cable assembly. The fiber optic cable assembly includes a non-interlocking armor, the non-interlocking armor is a spiral tube having an outside diameter of approximately 1.5 mm-5.5 mm, an inner diameter of approximately 0.75 mm-5.25 mm and a minimum bend radius of approximately 5 mm, the non-interlocking armor being formed from stainless steel; an inner jacket, the inner jacket having an outside diameter slightly less than the inner diameter of the non-interlocking armor; at least one fiber optic fiber; and a strengthening material, the strengthening material being made from aramid fibers and surrounding the at least one fiber optic fiber underneath the inner jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Certicable, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian A. Peterson, III, Barry Skolnick
  • Patent number: 9086556
    Abstract: A multi-tube optical fiber cable has a core with a first set of one or more optical fiber tubes, each having one or more optical fibers loosely arranged therein. The first set of tubes is constructed of a polymer having a low Young's constant modulus. The core also includes at least two strength members with a first binder arranged around the first set of optical fiber tubes and the strength members, where the first binder is substantially flat in shape such that there is no deformation of the first set of tubes, and where the strength members are offset from a central axis of the cable. The cable maintains a second set of a plurality of optical fiber tubes, each having one or more optical fibers loosely arranged therein, arranged around the outer circumference of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: David Keller, Randie Yoder, Paul Kroushl, Dan Rouse
  • Patent number: 8989543
    Abstract: An optical cable comprises an optical fiber ribbon, a tension member and a sheath. The optical fiber ribbon is constructed by integrating a plurality of optical fibers arranged in parallel. The sheath is provided so as to surround the optical fiber ribbon. The sheath is used for protecting the optical cable. One optical fiber ribbon is arranged twistably within an inner space surrounded by the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Homma, Itaru Sakabe, Kazuyuki Sohma
  • Patent number: 8983254
    Abstract: Fiber optic assemblies include subunit cables wrapped in binders. The assemblies have small cross sections and low bend radii while maintaining acceptable attenuation losses. Stranding of the subunit cables allows ease of access to the individual cables during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Louis Alexander Barrett, Gerry Jay Harvey, H. Edward Hudson, Eric Raymond Logan
  • Publication number: 20150049996
    Abstract: Described are cable designs adapted for aerial installations wherein the cable comprises a bundle of multifiber tight buffer encasement units, with a conformal thin skin containment layer surrounding the bundle. The multifiber tight buffer encasement units have an acrylate compliant inner layer that protects the fiber and minimizes stress transfer to the fiber; and a hard, tough acrylate outer layer that provides crush resistance. The thin skin containment layer provides cable integrity with a minimum of added size and weight. The thin skin containment layer encasement is encased in an outer protective jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: ORS Fitel, LLC
    Inventors: Carlton Gibbs, Mark G Graveston, Jason Pedder, Peter A Weimann
  • Patent number: 8953916
    Abstract: Multi-fiber, fiber optic cable assemblies and related fiber optic components, cables, and methods providing constrained optical fibers within an optical fiber sub-unit are disclosed. The optical fiber sub-unit(s) comprises optical fibers disposed adjacent a sub-unit strength member(s) within a sub-unit jacket. Movement of optical fibers within a sub-unit jacket can be constrained. In this manner, the optical fibers in an optical fiber sub-unit can be held together within the optical fiber sub-unit as a unit. As a non-limiting example, the optical fiber sub-unit(s) may be exposed and constrained in a furcation assembly as opposed to the optical fibers, thereby reducing complexity in fiber optic cable assembly preparations. Constraining the optical fibers may also allow optical skew, reduction of entanglement between the optical fibers and the cable strength members to reduce or avoid optical attenuation, and/or allow the optical fibers to act as anti-buckling components within the fiber optic cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: William C. Hurley, Wesley A. Yates
  • Patent number: 8938144
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable including, in a radial direction outward, a central strength member, a first layer of loose buffer tubes stranded around the central strength member, at least one of the loose buffer tubes of the first layer containing at least one light waveguide, an intermediate layer, a second layer of loose buffer tubes stranded around the intermediate layer, at least one of the loose buffer tubes of the second layer containing at least one light waveguide, and a jacket surrounding the second layer of loose buffer tubes, wherein the intermediate layer is formed of a material having a high coefficient of friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Draka Comteq B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Hennink, Jean-Pierre Bonicel, Pascal Maria Willem Bindels
  • Patent number: 8934746
    Abstract: A flexible flat optical cable includes two flexible base sheets, one or more optical fiber core wires arranged between the base sheets and each comprising at least an optical fiber, and an adhesive layer provided between the base sheets to bond the base sheets. A non-adhesive region is formed on a surface of the base sheets or the adhesive layer adjacent, in a thickness direction of the base sheets, to at least a portion of the optical fiber core wires for allowing a portion of the optical fiber core wires to move in a direction intersecting with an axial direction of the optical fiber core wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Juhyun Yu, Kouki Hirano, Akihiro Hiruta, Chihiro Ohkubo
  • Publication number: 20150010283
    Abstract: Multi-fiber, fiber optic cable assemblies and related fiber optic components, cables, and methods providing constrained optical fibers within an optical fiber sub-unit are disclosed. The optical fiber sub-unit(s) comprises optical fibers disposed adjacent a sub-unit strength member(s) within a sub-unit jacket. Movement of optical fibers within a sub-unit jacket can be constrained. In this manner, the optical fibers in an optical fiber sub-unit can be held together within the optical fiber sub-unit as a unit. As a non-limiting example, the optical fiber sub-unit(s) may be exposed and constrained in a furcation assembly as opposed to the optical fibers, thereby reducing complexity in fiber optic cable assembly preparations. Constraining the optical fibers may also allow optical skew, reduction of entanglement between the optical fibers and the cable strength members to reduce or avoid optical attenuation, and/or allow the optical fibers to act as anti-buckling components within the fiber optic cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: William Carl Hurley, Wesley Allan Yates
  • Patent number: 8923675
    Abstract: An optical communication cable is provided. The cable includes a core element located in a cable jacket. The core element includes a buffer tube having an outer surface, an inner surface and a channel defined by the inner surface of the first tube. The core element includes an optical fiber located within the channel of the buffer tube and a color layer formed from a surface-deposited colorant material applied to the outer surface of the buffer tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Adra Smith Baca, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Timothy Leonard Hunt, Michael Anthony Lockee, Eric John Mozdy
  • Patent number: 8909013
    Abstract: A traceable cable assembly comprises: a fiber optic cable including a cable jacket that encloses an optical fiber, and two conductive elements that are embedded spacedly in the cable jacket and that extend along the optical fiber; and multiple lighting units spacedly secured to the fiber optic cable. Each lighting unit includes a connecting seat provided with a light emitting element, and mounted to the fiber optic cable so that the light emitting element is connected electrically between the conductive elements through the connecting seat. A portable power device is detachably coupled to the connecting seat of one lighting unit for supplying a supply voltage to the light emitting element of each lighting unit through the conductive elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Amphenol Fiber Optic Technology (Shenzhen)
    Inventors: Bolin Jiang, Songsheng Li, Min Chen, Linghua Zhu
  • Patent number: 8897613
    Abstract: An example fiber optic cable includes an outer jacket having an elongated transverse cross-sectional profile defining a major axis and a minor axis. The transverse cross-sectional profile has a maximum width that extends along the major axis and a maximum thickness that extends along the minor axis. The maximum width of the transverse cross-sectional profile is longer than the maximum thickness of the transverse cross-sectional profile. The outer jacket also defines first and second separate passages that extend through the outer jacket along a lengthwise axis of the outer jacket. The second passage has a transverse cross-sectional profile that is elongated in an orientation extending along the major axis of the outer jacket. The fiber optic cable also includes a plurality of optical fibers positioned within the first passage a tensile strength member positioned within the second passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne M. Kachmar
  • Patent number: 8886000
    Abstract: A hybrid cable includes a cable jacket and elements stranded within the cable jacket. The elements include greater-capacity electrical-conductor elements and sub-assembly elements. The greater-capacity electrical-conductor elements include a metallic conductor jacketed in a polymer, each within the range of 10 American wire gauge (AWG) to 1\0 AWG. The sub-assembly elements include stranded combinations of sub-elements, where the sub-elements include at least one of polymeric tubes comprising optical fibers and lesser-capacity electrical-conductor elements, each having a lesser current-carrying capacity than 10 AWG. The sub-elements are stranded with respect to one another and additionally stranded as part of sub-assembly elements with respect to other elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: James Arthur Register, III, David Henry Smith
  • Patent number: 8873914
    Abstract: A wire or optical fiber cable configured for electronic devices, including at least one wire or optical fiber; at least one inner layer surrounding a portion of the at least one wire or optical fiber; at least one outer layer surrounding a portion of the at least one inner layer; at least one internal sipe separating at least a part of one outer layer and at least a part of one inner layer and a Faraday cage. The internal sipe is formed by at least a portion of an inner surface of the outer layer and at least a portion of an outer surface of the inner layer; and the inner and outer surface portions forming the internal sipe oppose each other and can move relative to each other in a sliding motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Inventor: Frampton E. Ellis
  • Patent number: 8855454
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bundled cable suitable for installation in multiple dwelling unit (MDU) applications. The bundled cable includes two or more binders stranded around multiple stranded cable units. The bundled cable not only maintains its integrity on a reel and during installation, but also reduces installation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.
    Inventors: Justin Elisha Quinn, Thomas Andrew Rasmussen, III
  • Publication number: 20140254995
    Abstract: A cable assembly for cell tower communications comprises a plurality of optical fiber cable units disposed within a unitary cable assembly jacket that surrounds the optical fiber cable units. The cable assembly jacket has a plurality of indentations disposed between adjacent optical fiber cable units that allow an installer to furcate the cable assembly into smaller cable groupings at a convenient cell tower location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Curtis L. Shoemaker, Robert M. Anderton, Richard L. Simmons, Stephen C. King, Donald K. Larson
  • Patent number: 8831390
    Abstract: Fiber-optic cable useful in a borehole is provided, with at least one optical waveguide (2), at least one metallic tube (1) which at least partially surrounds the at least one optical waveguide (2), and at least one additional layer, which at least partially surrounds the at least one metallic tube (1). The fiber-optic cable includes a separator which contributes to or cause mechanical decoupling of individual components of the fiber-optic cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Lios Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Friedhelm Kurtscheid, Wieland Hill, Martin Fromme
  • Publication number: 20140226939
    Abstract: Described are optical fiber distribution cables that simplify the installation process and significantly reduce the number of field splices. The distribution cables contain optical splitters within the cable structure itself, and the drop cables are also housed within the distribution cable. The optical splitters are preferably bi-directional to facilitate placement of the optical splitters inside the distribution cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: OFS Fitel ,LLC
    Inventors: Mark Boxer, John Emanuel George, Frank D. Stallworth
  • Patent number: 8805143
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reduced-diameter optical-fiber cable that possesses a high fiber count and a high cable fiber density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Draka Comteq, B.V.
    Inventors: Olivier Tatat, Jean-Marc Testu
  • Patent number: 8805140
    Abstract: A method for connecting user devices to optical fiber units contained in an optical cable includes: providing an opening in a sheath of the optical cable to access the optical fiber units contained in the optical cable; extracting a segment of at least one optical fiber unit from the optical cable through the opening; inserting a free end of the extracted segment of optical fiber unit into a protection tube; making the protection tube slide on the extracted segment of optical fiber unit to insert an end portion of the protection tube, distal from the free end of the extract segment of the optical fiber unit, into the optical cable through the opening; positioning a closure element on the optical cable in correspondence of the opening so as to substantially realize a closure thereof; securing in a removable way the closure element to the optical cable and bringing the free end of the extracted segment of optical fiber unit in correspondence of a connection point of a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.
    Inventor: Arnaud Le Dissez
  • Patent number: 8798418
    Abstract: An optical cable includes a buffer tube housing at least one optical fiber, a sheath surrounding such buffer tube and at least one longitudinal strength member embedded in the sheath, in which at least one separation element is provided between a portion of the outer surface of the buffer tube and the inner surface of the sheath, laying in an axial plane not containing the at least one strength member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.
    Inventors: Martin Davies, Simon James Frampton, Roger Pike, Ralph Sutehall
  • Patent number: 8761559
    Abstract: Fiber optic distribution cables and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The fiber optic distribution cables present one or more optical fibers outward of the protective covering for distribution of the same toward the subscriber. In one fiber optic distribution cable, a length of distribution optical fiber that is removed from the distribution cable and presented outward of the protective covering is longer than the opening at access location. In another embodiment, a demarcation point is provided for inhibiting the movement (i.e., pistoning) of the distribution optical fiber into and out of the distribution cable. In still another embodiment, an indexing tube is provided for indexing a tether tube within the indexing tube for providing the distribution optical fiber with a suitable excess fiber length. Additionally, other embodiments may include a fiber optic distribution cable having a dry construction and/or a non-round cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Todd Cody, Christopher Paul Lewallen, Dennis Michael Knecht, James Phillip Luther
  • Patent number: 8750669
    Abstract: A rack cabling system including a rack having mounted thereon a first hardware component and a patch panel housing mounted on the rack adjacent the first hardware component. The patch panel housing populates no more than a three rack unit (RU space), the patch panel housing including a first end having cable pathway openings and a second end having connector elements mounted therein. The patch panel may have a first cable pathway opening located adjacent the first side of the housing and defining a primary position and a first connector element mounted on the second end and the first connector element having a first position corresponding to the primary position of the first cable pathway opening. Cable harnesses are routed with less than three bends of the cables between the first hardware component and the patch panel housing, so that the first cable harness is terminated at the first connector element in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Methode Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Carter, David E. Hildreth, Robert C. Neumann, Tyler M. Miller
  • Patent number: 8731352
    Abstract: Fiber optic assemblies include subunit cables wrapped in binders. The assemblies have small cross sections and low bend radii while maintaining acceptable attenuation losses. SZ stranding of the subunit cables allows ease of access to the individual cables during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Louis Alexander Barrett, Gerry Jay Harvey, H. Edward Hudson, Eric Raymond Logan
  • Patent number: 8655127
    Abstract: There is provided an optical fiber cable having a plurality of optical fiber members. Each optical fiber member includes an optical fiber and a protective coating surrounding the optical fiber. A polymer coating surrounds the plurality of optical fiber members and a portion of the polymer coating is located between at least some of the optical fiber members. The optical fiber members and the polymer coating form an optical fiber unit. A tight buffer surrounds the optical fiber unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Optical Cable Corporation
    Inventors: Teddy W. Leonard, Michael A. Stover, Aaron J. Plaski
  • Publication number: 20140029905
    Abstract: Fiber optic assemblies include subunit cables wrapped in binders. The assemblies have small cross sections and low bend radii while maintaining acceptable attenuation losses. SZ stranding of the subunit cables allows ease of access to the individual cables during installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Louis Alexander Barrett, Gerry Jay Harvey, H. Edward Hudson, Eric Raymond Logan
  • Patent number: 8611713
    Abstract: An optical cable includes an optical fiber, a primary coating coated on the optical fiber, and an outer coating coated on the primary coating. The optical cable is spiral, and can be compressed or stretched. The outer coating comprises about 40 to 70 weight percent of caoutchouc, about 20 to 50 weight percent of neoprene, about 0 to 6 weight percent of magnesium oxide, about 0 to 6 weight percent of zinc oxide, and about 0 to 6 weight percent of vulcanization accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: I-Thun Lin
  • Patent number: 8582938
    Abstract: Fiber optic distribution cables and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The fiber optic distribution cables present one or more optical fibers outward of the protective covering for distribution of the same toward the subscriber. In one fiber optic distribution cable, a length of distribution optical fiber that is removed from the distribution cable and presented outward of the protective covering is longer than the opening at access location. In another embodiment, a demarcation point is provided for inhibiting the movement (i.e., pistoning) of the distribution optical fiber into and out of the distribution cable. In still another embodiment, an indexing tube is provided for indexing a tether tube within the indexing tube for providing the distribution optical fiber with a suitable excess fiber length. Additionally, other embodiments may include a fiber optic distribution cable having a dry construction and/or a non-round cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Joseph T. Cody, Dennis M. Knecht, Christopher Paul Lewallen, James P. Luther
  • Patent number: 8565565
    Abstract: Fiber optic assemblies include subunit cables wrapped in binders. The assemblies have small cross sections and low bend radii while maintaining acceptable attenuation losses. SZ stranding of the subunit cables allows ease of access to the individual cables during installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Louis A. Barrett, Gerry J. Harvey, Harold E. Hudson, II, Eric R. Logan
  • Patent number: 8494327
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable includes a plurality of optical fiber subunits, each of the subunits including four fiber optic elements and an enclosing jacket. A plurality of optical fiber subunit assemblies are also included, each of which includes a plurality of the optical fiber subunits and an enclosing micro-sheath. The subunits are stranded around one another. A sheath encloses the plurality of optical fiber subunit assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Nexans
    Inventors: David Keller, Jeff Rosenquist
  • Patent number: 8472768
    Abstract: A plastic optical fiber cable that is strong in repeated flexure, ensuring low light loss at bending with a bend radius of 2 mm. The plastic optical fiber cable is one composed of a multicore plastic optical fiber strand including 7 to 10,000 cores of transparent resin, island portions each consisting of at least one core-surrounding sheath layer of transparent resin with a refractive index lower than that of the transparent resin constituting the cores and sea portion of resin surrounding the island portions and, enclosing the multicore plastic optical fiber strand, a coating layer, characterized in that the resin constituting at least either the sheath layer or sea layer is one of 25 to 55 Shore D hardness while the resin constituting the coating layer consists of a thermoplastic resin of 500 to 2000 MP flexural modulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei E-Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Kai, Seiji Sasho, Hajime Munekuni
  • Patent number: 8412012
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes an unbuffered optical fiber, a tensile reinforcement member surrounding the unbuffered optical fiber, and a jacket surrounding the tensile reinforcement member. The jacket is suitable for outside plant environment. A water blocking material is placed between the unbuffered fiber and the jacket. The unbuffered optical fiber comprises an ultra bend-insensitive fiber that meets the requirements of ITU-T G.657.B3 and exhibits an additional loss of less than approximately 0.2 dB/turn when the fiber is wrapped around a 5 mm bend radius mandrel. The optical fiber cable also exhibits an additional loss of less than approximately 0.4 dB/km at 1550 nm when the cable is subjected to ?20° C. outside plant environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: OFS Fitel, LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Jost, Elmar Staudinger, Peter A. Weimann
  • Patent number: 8412013
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes an elongated optical element portion having an optical fiber, a pair of tensile strength members and an outer jacket. The optical fiber is composed of one or more plastic coated optical fibers, tight-buffered optical fibers or optical ribbon fibers. The pair of tensile strength members is arranged in parallel at both sides of the optical fiber in a width direction of the optical fiber. The outer jacket covers outer circumferences of the optical fiber and the pair of tensile strength members. A frictional coefficient of the outer jacket is equal to or less than 0.20. Shore D hardness of the outer jacket is equal to or more than 60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignees: Fujikura Ltd., Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Shimei Tanaka, Tadayoshi Sayama, Daiki Takeda, Masashi Ohno, Naoki Okada, Keiichiro Sugimoto, Shinichi Niwa
  • Patent number: 8388242
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable assembly includes a connector and a fiber optic cable. The connector includes a housing having a first axial end and an oppositely disposed second axial end. A ferrule is disposed in the housing. A plurality of optical fibers is mounted in the ferrule. The fiber optic cable includes an outer jacket defining a fiber passage that extends longitudinally through the outer jacket and a window that extends through the outer jacket and the fiber passage. First and second strength members are oppositely disposed about the fiber passage in the outer jacket. A plurality of optical fibers is disposed in the fiber passage. The optical fibers are joined at splices to the optical fibers of the connector. A splice sleeve is disposed over the splices. The splice sleeve is disposed in the window of the outer jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne M. Kachmar, Ronald J. Kleckowski