Optical cable with peelable strength member portion

Details Optical cable with peelable strength member portion Optical cable with peelable strength member portion

2008-06-27

2009-10-13

Song, Sarah (Department: 2874)

Optical waveguides

Optical transmission cable

Tightly confined

C385S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07603012

ABSTRACT:
A fiber optic cable that includes one or more optical fibers, and one or more strength members spanning the length of the cable. The cable also includes a protective jacket protecting the cable across all, or at least substantially all of its length. One or more ends of the cable (and potentially as much as the entire length of the cable), includes a jacket portion that surrounds the strength member(s), and a jacket portion that surrounds the optical fiber(s). These jacket portions are connected by a peelable separation portion. Accordingly, when the optical fiber portion of the jacket is pulled relative to the strength member portion of the jacket, the separation portion ruptures permitting the strength member portion and the optical fiber portion to be peeled away from each other. This allows for independent control of the termination of the strength member(s) relative to the optical fiber(s).

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patent: 7308176 (2007-12-01), Bocanegra et al.
patent: 7391943 (2008-06-01), Blazer et al.
patent: 2006/0133746 (2006-06-01), Quinn et al.

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