Fiber optic pigtail assembly
AssigneeLeviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorsSean McCloud, Tony Yuen, Jamie Leonard
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Abstract
A fiber optic pigtail assembly that includes a plurality of optical fibers and at least one optical connector. The optical fibers each have a first end opposite a second end. The plurality of optical fibers are ribbonized together from the first end of each of the plurality of optical fibers partway toward the second end of each of the plurality of optical fibers and form a ribbonized end portion. The at least one optical connector is connected to the second end of each of the plurality of optical fibers. A loose portion of the plurality of optical fibers is positioned between the at least one optical connector and the ribbonized end portion.
Claims20
A fiber optic pigtail assembly, comprising:
- a ribbonized portion in which first sections of optical fibers are ribbonized;
- and
- a loose portion in which second sections of the optical fibers are not ribbonized, wherein the loose portion is adjacent to the ribbonized portion;
- wherein
- ends of the second sections of the optical fibers are terminated by respective connectors,
- the second sections of the optical fibers have different lengths, and
- at least portions of the second sections of the optical fibers traverse through tubes that extend from the respective connectors partway toward the ribbonized portion.
A system, comprising:
- optical fibers that are joined in a pigtail assembly comprising a first section in which the optical fibers are ribbonized and a second section, adjacent to the first section, in which the optical fibers are separated from one another, wherein the optical fibers within the second section are sized to have different lengths;
- connectors that terminate ends of the optical fibers in the second section;
- and
- tubes that encompass respective portions of the optical fibers within the second section, the respective portions extending from the connectors partway toward the first section.
A fiber optic pigtail assembly, comprising:
- optical fibers that are ribbonized along a first section of the pigtail assembly and non-ribbonized along a second section of the pigtail assembly adjacent to the first section, wherein non-ribbonized sections of the optical fibers comprising the second section have different lengths;
- connectors that terminate ends of the non-ribbonized sections of the optical fibers;
- and
- tubes that house respective portions of the optical fibers along the second section, wherein the tubes extend from respective bases of the connectors to respective points along the non-ribbonized optical fibers partway toward the first section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.