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US 2022/0187555 A1Published application
Cable seals with reinforcements
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorMatthew P. GALLA
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Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to structures and designs that allow gels to be used to conform freely to optical cables while simultaneously minimizing the displacement of the gel due to deformation forces acting on the gel.
Claims11
-22. (canceled)
A telecommunications enclosure comprising:
- a housing;
- a first cable seal including a first volume of gel and a first plurality of tensile reinforcing elements embedded in the first volume of gel and bonded to the first volume of gel;
- and
- a second cable seal including a second volume of gel and a second plurality of tensile reinforcing elements embedded in the second volume of gel and bonded to the second volume of gel, the second cable seal being configured to cooperate with the first cable seal to provide full sealing about a fiber optic cable;
- wherein the first and second pluralities of tensile reinforcing elements each include a free end and an opposite base end, and the base ends respectively extend outside of the first and second volumes of gels and are anchored directly to the housing;
- and
- wherein the first and second pluralities of tensile reinforcing elements are arranged in force transmitting relation relative to the housing of the telecommunications enclosure such that when a deformation force is applied to the respective first and second volumes of gels, the first and second pluralities of tensile reinforcing elements transfer tensile load to the housing of the telecommunications enclosure to resist deformation of the first and second volumes of gels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.