Housing for an optical fiber assembly
AssigneeTyco Electronics Raychem BVBA
InventorsRoel Modest Willy Bryon, Kristof Vastmana, Danny Willy August Verheyden
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a housing for an optical fiber assembly allowing compact storage of optical fiber elements while still providing possibility to efficiently splice individual optical fiber elements. The housing of the invention is adapted to receive a first and a second loop (L1, L2) of an optical cable and comprises a first set of guiding means (46) defining a first plane (P1) for receiving the first loop (L1) and a second set of guiding means (28, 48, 56) defining a second plane (P2) for receiving the second loop (L2, 24), wherein the planes (P1, P2) are under a substantial angle.
Claims18
1-17. (canceled)
A housing for an optical cable composed of plural optical fiber elements which form a first loop and a second loop, said housing comprising a first set of guiding means defining a first plane for receiving the first loop and a second set of guiding means defining a second plane for receiving the second loop, wherein the planes are under a substantial angle.
Optical fiber assembly for an optical cable (8) composed of plural optical fiber elements (22) comprising:
- a housing;
- at least one spliced optical fiber element being separated from the remaining optical fiber elements of said optical cable, wherein said at least one separated optical fiber element forms a first loop and wherein remaining optical fiber elements form at least a second loop;
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- wherein both loops are accommodated in said housing in such a way that they each extend in planes, wherein the planes are under a substantial angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.