Branching arrangement for optical fiber cables

US5201021A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• AEG Kabel Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Peter Delage · Jüchen, DE
• Ralph Bohme · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Reinhard Girbig · Mönchengladbach, DE
• Herbert Moers · Korschenbroich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1992
• Grant date: Apr 6, 1993
• Expiry date: May 18, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/4475
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a branching arrangement for a flat cable, where the flat cable is separated along the area of the subscriber connection from cross-links, which connect an optical vein to the neighboring elements, it is provided that the vein is separated for a long distance from the cable, so that it has no splice connection in the branching area. It is further provided that, the separated optical vein curves over the optical cable at about a right angle, that the separated optical vein is safeguarded by a kink protection tube, and that the cable and the kink protection tube are secured to prevent relative movement therebetween.