G02B 6/44
Mechanical structures for providing tensile strength and external protection for fibres
Official title: Mechanical structures for providing tensile strength and external protection for fibres, e.g. optical transmission cables (cables incorporating electric conductors and optical fibres {where features relating to the optical fibres are not of interest} H01B11/22)
G02B6/44 (Mechanical structures for providing tensile strength and external protection for fibres) appears on 10,861 US grants and 9,415 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fiber optic cable6 Oct 2026US 12,754,387 B2NTT, Inc.
- High density, low diameter cable with rollable fiber optic ribbon6 Oct 2026US 12,754,388 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Intermittently bonded optical fiber ribbon and method of preparing same6 Oct 2026US 12,754,389 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Capillary and manufacturing method therefor29 Sep 2026US 12,748,264 B2Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
- Optical fiber cable29 Sep 2026US 12,748,274 B2AFL Telecommunications LLC
- Connection interfaces and related assemblies8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309951 A1Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
- High density fiber management system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309952 A1Panduit Corp.
- While-drilling fiber optic communication system and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309953 A1Wuhan University of Technology
- Cable management system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309954 A1
- Bladed chassis systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310267 A1CommScope Technologies LLC
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By later US patents
- Flexible plastics vacuum cleaner core1,473US 5,778,939 ADual Voltage Co. Ltd. · 1998
- High-density fiber distribution frame835US 5,497,444 AADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 1996
- High-density fiber distribution frame603US 5,717,810 AADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 1998
- Fiber distribution frame system, cabinets, trays and fiber optic connector couplings556US 5,402,515 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1995
- Fiber termination block with angled slide556US 6,591,051 B2ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2003