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US 2015/0030290 A1Published application
Connectors for Composite Fiber Optic/Coaxial Cables and Related Connectorized Cables and Methods
AssigneeCommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
InventorKenneth S. Wood
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Abstract
A connector for a composite communications cable includes a connector body, a contact post mounted within the connector body, a compression sleeve that is received within a rear end of the connector body and an optical fiber passage at a front end of the connector.
Claims19
A connector for a composite communications cable that includes both a coaxial component and a fiber optic component, the connector comprising:
- a connector body;
- a contact post mounted within the connector body that is configured to receive both a center conductor of the coaxial component and an optical fiber of the fiber optic component;
- a compression sleeve that is received within a rear end of the connector body;
- and
- an optical fiber passage at a front end of the connector body.
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A ground plate, comprising:
- a base plate;
- a mounting plate extending upward from the base plate, the mounting plate including a plurality of slots aligned in a row;
- wherein the base plate includes a plurality of fingers, each of which includes a threaded aperture.
A method of upgrading a coaxial cable cabling connection to a fiber optic cabling connection, the method comprising:
- removing a coaxial connector from a first end of a composite communications cable;
- removing portions of a jacket, an outer conductor and a dielectric spacer of the composite communications cable from the first end of the composite communications cable so that a first end portion of an optical fiber of the composite communications cable extends beyond first end portions of the jacket, outer conductor and dielectric spacer;
- folding the first end portion of the outer conductor back onto the first end portion of the jacket;
- inserting the first end of the composite communications cable into a compression connector so that the first end portion of the optical fiber extends through an optical fiber passage of the compression connector;
- and
- compressing a compression sleeve of the compression connector to lock the composite communications cable in place inside the compression connector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.