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Fiber optic communications and power network

AssigneeRadius Universal LLC

InventorDonald Lee Sipes, Jr.

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Abstract

A fiber optic-based communications network includes: a power insertion device, connected to multiple fiber links from a data source, configured to provide power insertion to a hybrid fiber/power cable connected to at least one fiber link of the multiple fiber links; the hybrid fiber/power cable, connecting the power insertion device to a connection interface device, configured to transmit data and power from the power insertion device to the connection interface device; and the connection interface device, configured to provide an interface for connection to an end device via a power over Ethernet (PoE)-compatible connection and to provide optical to electrical media conversion for data transmitted from the power insertion device to an end device via the hybrid fiber/power cable and the PoE-compatible connection.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A connection interface device, comprising:

a first interface disposed in a routing layer of the connection interface device, configured to receive a hybrid cable comprising wires for power transmission and one or more fibers for data transmission, wherein, in the routing layer, the one or more fibers from the hybrid cable are terminated at one or more respective fiber connectors, and wherein the routing layer is configured to accommodate multiple windings of the one or more fibers;
one or more Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C interfaces disposed in an electronics layer of the connection interface device;
and
a USB host disposed in the electronics layer of the connection interface device, configured to manage data and power transmission to one or more USB peripheral devices via the one or more USB Type-C interfaces;
wherein the one or more USB peripheral devices are connected to a fiber-based Ethernet network via the connection interface device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/399,397Filed 5 Jan 2017 · continuation in part
Priority: 19 Sep 2013
Published: US 2017/0117971 A127 Apr 2017
Granted: 1 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04B 10/808
Arrangements for feeding power: electrical power feeding of an optical transmission system
G02B 6/3817
Of the ferrule type, e.g. fibre ends embedded in ferrules, connecting a pair of fibres: containing optical and electrical conductors
G02B 6/4246
Packages, e.g. shape, construction, internal or external details: bidirectionally operating package structures
G02B 6/4292
Coupling light guides with opto-electronic elements: the light guide being disconnectable from the opto-electronic element, e.g. mutually self…

Family

Application61/880,030Us provisional application · filed 19 Sep 2013
Application14/490,988Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 19 Sep 2014
Application14/836,600Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Aug 2015
Application14/837,989Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 27 Aug 2015
US 2017/0117971 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Apr 2017
US 9,882,656 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 10,171,180 B2Parent of this continuation
Application14/837,989Parent of this continuation
Application14/836,600Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2015/0078740 A1Published application
US 2016/0020858 A1Published application
US 2016/0020911 A1Published application
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