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US 2012/0057840 A1Published application
Apparatus for providing support for an optical fibre
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorChristophe Paget
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Abstract
A support for an optical fibre partially submerged in a substrate is discloses in which the support is arranged with fibre fixing means for fixing a portion of the fibre to the support so that strain on the portion of the fibre external to the substrate and support member is at least partially diverted from the portion of the fibre internal to the support member.
Claims15
Apparatus for providing support for an optical fibre at its point of emergence from a substrate, said apparatus comprising:
- support means comprising a foot member and a resilient flexible tail member, said foot member comprising an attachment surface arranged for fixing said support means to a substrate over the point of emergence of an optical fibre from said substrate;
- a conduit running within said support means between said attachment surface of said foot member and said tail member and arranged for carrying said optical fibre from said substrate to the distal end of said tail member;
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- fibre fixing means arranged to fix said optical fibre within said tail member so that strain on the portion of said optical fibre that extends externally from said tail member is substantially diverted away from the portion of said optical fibre internal to said support means and onto said support means.
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