High reliability armored termination/epoxy gland
AssigneeTGS Geophysical Company (UK) Limited
InventorsEddie Kimbrell, John Toth, Ted Lichoulas, Lou Guzzo
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Abstract
An armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal which connects a fiber optic cable—the fiber optic cable including one or more armor wires and one or more cable tubes—to a pressure housing, the armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal including: an armored termination which locks the one or more armor wires in a conical cavity; sealing paths which block water from traveling in the interstitial space between the one or more armor wires and the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing; and fiber feed-through tubes which block water from traveling in the interior of the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing.
Claims46
An armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal which connects a fiber optic cable comprising one or more armor wires and one or more cable tubes to a pressure housing, the armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal comprising:
- an armored termination which locks the one or more armor wires in a conical cavity;
- sealing paths which block water from traveling in an interstitial space between the one or more armor wires and the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing;
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- one or more fiber feed-through tubes which block water from traveling in an interior of the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing.
A method of attaching a fiber optic cable comprising one or more armor wires and one or more cable tubes to a pressure housing, the method comprising:
- cutting the fiber optic cable;
- attaching the fiber optic cable to an armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal comprising:
- an armored termination which locks the one or more armor wires in a conical cavity;
- sealing paths which block water from traveling in an interstitial space between the one or more armor wires and the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing;
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- one or more fiber feed-through tubes which block water from traveling in an interior of the one or more cable tubes into the pressure housing. attaching the armored cable termination/fiber-optic seal to a pressure housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.