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US 8,796,555 B2Granted
Molded splitter structures and methods for making the same
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsJonathan Aase, Cameron Frazier, Peter Russell-Clarke, Paul Choiniere, Greg Dunham, Kurt Stiehl
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Abstract
Molded splitter structures and systems and methods for manufacturing molded splitter structures are disclosed.
Claims21
A cable structure, comprising:
- a plurality of cable structure legs, each leg having a splitter interface region that has a predetermined diameter;
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- a tube-shaped splitter comprising:
- a plurality of leg interface regions, wherein each leg interface region is coupled to one of the splitter interface regions, wherein each leg interface region has a diameter that is substantially the same as the predetermined diameter of the splitter interface region to which it is coupled, and wherein the plurality of leg interface regions is a single molded shot of material that encapsulates the entire portion of a conductor bundle extending between two cable structure legs of the plurality of cable structure legs;
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- another shot of material that encapsulates a first portion of the single molded shot and that abuts at least a first leg interface region of the plurality of leg interface regions.
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A cable structure comprising:
- a first cable structure leg;
- a second cable structure leg;
- a singular molded splitter component comprising:
- a first ring region that abuts an end of the first cable structure leg;
- a second ring region that abuts an end of the second cable structure leg;
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- a non-ring region that extends between the first ring region and the second ring region, wherein an outer diameter of the non-ring region is smaller than an outer diameter of the first ring region;
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- another molded splitter component that encapsulates the non-ring region.
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A cable structure comprising:
- a first cable sheath comprising a first cable sheath cavity that extends within the first cable sheath between a first end of the first cable sheath and a second end of the first cable sheath;
- a second cable sheath comprising a second cable sheath cavity that extends within the second cable sheath between a first end of the second cable sheath and a second end of the second cable sheath;
- a conductor bundle that extends out from the first cable sheath cavity through the first end of the first cable sheath and into the second cable sheath cavity through the second end of the second cable sheath;
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- a splitter comprising:
- a first splitter component comprising:
- a first ring region that abuts the first end of the first cable sheath;
- a second ring region that abuts the second end of the second cable sheath;
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- a non-ring region that extends between the first ring region and the second ring region, wherein the first splitter component encapsulates the portion of the conductor bundle that extends between the first end of the first cable sheath and the second end of the second cable sheath;
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- a second splitter component that encapsulates the non-ring region and that abuts each one of the first ring region and the second ring region.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.