Metal-free, self-supporting optical cable

Details Metal-free, self-supporting optical cable Metal-free, self-supporting optical cable

1988-10-24

1989-06-13

Sikes, William L.

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Feedthrough or bushing

Compression

174 70A, 174102A, G02B 644, H02G 300

Patent

active

048386359

ABSTRACT:
A metal-free optical cable has a cable core with a plurality of optical fibers in a sheath, which is surrounded by a carrier member in the form of at least one ply of a high-strength film material. The improvement characterized by the filament material being held together by an externally applied winding of a filament forming an armoring layer with the filament being of a shorter length of lay than the filament material for the carrier member and being of a material exhibiting electrical properties that are substantially the same as the material of the filament forming the carrier member.

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patent: 4374608 (1983-02-01), Anderson
patent: 4541686 (1985-09-01), Barfuss et al.
patent: 4629285 (1986-12-01), Carter et al.
patent: 4673247 (1987-06-01), Oestreich
patent: 4677418 (1987-06-01), Shulver
patent: 4744637 (1988-05-01), Eichenbaum et al.
patent: 4776665 (1988-10-01), Oestreich

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