Patent · US Expired

Friction reduction in drawing optical cable into protective tubes

US4979794A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 20, 1989
Grant dateDec 25, 1990
Priority date
Expiry dateApr 20, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/4479
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An outer protective tube into which a fiber optic cable is drawn under tension having a multiplicity of protruberances on its inside surface presenting a corresponding multiplicity of discrete spaced non-linear sliding surfaces to said cable to reduce friction and the tension imposed on the cable.

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