Cable sleeve for light waveguide cables

US6130982A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Diermeier · Munich, DE
• Peter Dotzer · Munich, DE
• Ernst Mayr · Starnberg, DE
• Guenter Schroeder · Olching, DE
• Guenther Weber · Altötting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 30, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 10, 2000
• Expiry date: Apr 30, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/501
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A cable sleeve for light waveguides is constructed as a flat plate member in which a circular groove extends and has inlets extending tangentially from the groove. The cable sleeve can receive excess lengths of the cable as well as splices which excess lengths and splices are received in the circular groove.