Environmentally sealed cable breakout assemblies

US9057862B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HUBER+SUHNER AG · CH

Inventors

• Martin Strasser · Geisingen, DE
• David Torri · Des Plaines, US
• Axel Vega · Arlington Heights, US
• Nasir Mahmood · Chicago, US
• Randall Whitcomb · South Burlington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 12, 2014
• Grant date: Jun 16, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 12, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/545
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A cable breakout assembly is provided, including a feeder cable, a breakout structure having a first end threadedly engaged with a cable nut having a single-port cable gland through which the feeder cable extends, a central conduit which houses the sections of the feeder cable passing there through, and an opposed second end threadedly engaged with a cable nut having a multi-port cable gland, whose number of ports corresponds to the number of splices of the feeder cable. A plurality of environmentally sealed, flexible conduits are provided, each having a first end that interfaces with and extends from a respective port of the multi-port gland, and a second end adapted to interface with an external device, wherein each flexible conduit houses a respective spliced section of the feeder cable therein.