Apparatus with substantially rigid support
AssigneeAker Subsea AS
InventorsStuart REID, Daniel AHRENS, Kenneth HOOD
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Abstract
An apparatus (10) for use subsea including a container having an aperture, a lid (12) securable to the container to cover the aperture, a printed circuit board, at least one fibre-optic (18) connecting the printed circuit board to the lid (12) and a substantially rigid support (14) locatable in the container. The lid (12) is suitable to isolate the inside of the container from the outside of the container when fluid pressure outside the container is at least 1000 kPa. The support (14) has at least one upstanding member around which one or more fibre-optics (18) are locatable such that the smallest radius of a bend in the fibre-optic(s) (18) is greater than the minimum bend radius thereof.
Claims24
An apparatus for use subsea, the apparatus comprising:
- a. a container having at least one aperture;
- b. a lid securable to the container to cover the at least one aperture, suitable to isolate the inside of the container from the outside of the container when fluid pressure outside the container is at least 1000 kPa;
- c. at least one printed circuit board;
- d. at least one fibre-optic connecting the printed circuit board to the lid;
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- e. a substantially rigid support locatable in the container, the substantially rigid support having at least one upstanding member around which one or more fibre-optics are locatable such that the smallest radius of a bend in the one or more fibre-optics is greater than the minimum bend radius of the one or more fibre-optics.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.