Device for interconnecting optical fiber cables
AssigneePouyet, S.A.
InventorsThierry Naudin, Christophe Corbille, Hervé Brunet
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Abstract
An optical fiber organizer and a box for receiving it. The inlets for the optical cables project side-by-side in row abreast from the same short side of the box bottom. The organizer includes a pedestal which receives, in nested manner, stackable modules for holding cassettes. The pedestal is made of a plastics material and has an outside shape that is rounded. A transit empty space is provided before the pedestal for the purpose of passing the fibers, and a storage empty space is provided after the pedestal for the purpose of storing standby fibers.
Claims10
A watertight device designed for interconnecting optical fiber cables, the device being in the form of a watertight box referred to as an optical organizer box which is made up of a substantially flat bottom and of a lid, and which includes means for performing the following four functions:
- securing and sealing the optical fibers in inlets;
- directing the optical fibers towards the optical organizer proper;
- storing the splices and the surplus lengths of optical fiber in pivotally-mounted cassettes equipping said organizer;
- and
- optionally storing standby optical fibers, in particular optical fibers of a through cable;
- wherein:
- for each cable, the device includes an inlet device for providing a watertight cable inlet and for securing the strength members of the cable, which inlet device is fitted to the cable prior to inserting said cable into the box, the outer sheath of the cable then being secured directly on said watertight inlet device and upstream from its sealing means;
- all of the watertight inlet devices then being received by being plugged into the same side of the box and then being locked therein merely by keying;
- the optical organizer which is separated from the inlet devices by an empty transit space through which the broken-out optical fibers pass, includes a pedestal which is fixed to the bottom of the box and which receives one or more cassette-holding modules for holding cassettes for storing splices and surplus lengths;
- each module receiving one or more cassettes so that each cassette can tilt, in known manner, through at least 90 degrees about its base;
- the modules being stackable in nested manner and in a direction that slopes, in known manner, relative to the plane of the bottom of the box sufficiently to enable each cassette to tilt in this way;
- the means, acting by clipping, are organized to hold each cassette in either one of its two end-of-tilt positions;
- the pedestal is followed by a second empty space optionally organized to receive other optical fibers referred to as standby optical fibers;
- and
- the edges of the box bottom are of a height that is sufficiently small as to enable all of the cassettes in the stack to be accessed freely from the sides.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.