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US 9,310,275 B1Granted
Launch cable assembly, kit and method
AssigneeFiber Next, LLC
InventorRyan M. Irving
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Abstract
A launch cable assembly for use with an MPO switch and OTDR to test a multi-fiber cable, which includes a mandrel around which is wrapped between twenty-five and two hundred feet of multiple fiber optic strands, where the mandrel and fiber optic strands are housed within a housing, the fiber optic strands are in optical communication with a port in the housing, the fiber optic strands exit the housing from a fiber exit in the housing, and the fiber optic strands terminate in an assembly connector, which is preferably a standard MPO connector.
Claims19
A launch cable assembly for testing a multi-fiber optic cable containing at least two fiber optic strands and terminating in a first connector, comprising:
- a housing;
- a mandrel disposed within said housing;
- at least one cable port comprising an inner side and an outer side, wherein said at least one cable port is disposed through said housing such that the first connector of the multi-fiber optic cable is able to be connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port, and said inner side of said at least one cable port is within said housing;
- at least one fiber exit disposed in said housing;
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- at least one set of at least two fiber optic strands of at least twenty-five feet in length, wrapped around said mandrel within said housing, wherein each of said at least two fiber optic strands comprises a first end in optical communication with said inner side of said at least one cable port and a second end grouped together with each of said second ends of said at least two fiber optic strands such that each of said second ends of said at least two fiber optic strands terminates in a single second connector;
- wherein said at least one set of at least two fiber optic strands extend through said at least one fiber exit such that said second connector is outside of said housing;
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- wherein said at least two fiber optic strands are arranged in optical communication with said inner side of said at least one cable port such that when the first connector of the multi-fiber optic cable is connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port, light traveling through each of said at least two fiber optic strands will continue traveling through the at least two fiber optic strands within the multi-fiber optic cable whose first connector is connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port, and light traveling through each of the at least two fiber optic strands within the multi-fiber optic cable connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port will continue traveling through said at least two fiber optic strands.
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A launch cable assembly kit for testing a multi-fiber optic cable containing at least two fiber optic strands and terminating in a first connector, comprising:
- at least one launch cable assembly, each of which comprises:
- a housing;
- a mandrel disposed within said housing;
- at least one cable port comprising an inner side and an outer side, wherein said at least one cable port is disposed through said housing such that the first connector of the multi-fiber optic cable is able to be connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port, and said inner side of said at least one cable port is within said housing;
- at least one fiber exit disposed in said housing;
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- at least one set of at least two fiber optic strands of at least twenty-five feet in length, wrapped around said mandrel within said housing, wherein each of said at least two fiber optic strands comprises a first end in optical communication with said inner side of said at least one cable port and a second end grouped together with each of said second ends of said at least two fiber optic strands such that each of said second ends of said at least two fiber optic strands terminates in a single second connector;
- wherein said at least one set of at least two fiber optic strands extends through said at least one fiber exit such that said second connector is outside of said housing;
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- wherein said at least two fiber optic strands are arranged in optical communication with said inner side of said at least one cable port such that when the first connector of the multi-fiber optic cable is connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port, light traveling through each of said at least two fiber optic strands will continue traveling through the at least two fiber optic strands within the multi-fiber optic cable connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port, and light traveling through each of the at least two fiber optic strands within the multi-fiber optic cable connected to said outer side of said at least one cable port will continue traveling through said at least two fiber optic strands;
- and at least one MPO switch comprising a switch port capable of accepting said second connector of said launch cable assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.