Lucent Technologies Inc.

At&t Bell Laboratories

Edward Dennis Nelson

Valerie Jeanne Kuck

Raffaele A Sabia

Stanley Kaufman

Kent B Connole

Karen D Dye

Timothy S Dougherty

Maureen Gillen Chan

Leonard D Loan, Deceased

A protectively packaged connector for connecting multiple conductors is disclosed. The connector has multiple parts, each of which is provided with a protective covering of heat shrink thermoplastic film. The connector is assembled in the normal manner but with the film in place. This protects the connector from outside contaminants and is especially useful for filled connectors which readily attract contaminants because of the sticky waterproof filling compound.

Protective wrappings for spliced cable connectors

Protective wrapping for spliced cable connectors

An insulated conductor (20) for use in a communication cable which includes a filling material (30) includes a copper conductor (25) and a composite insulation system (27) comprising two concentric layers of insulation. An inner foam layer (28) of the insulation comprises a cellular plastic material (28) which includes a stabilizer system. An outer layer (29) of the insulation is referred to as a skin and comprises a stabilized solid plastic material. The stabilizer system in each of the cellular and solid layers includes a bifunctional portion that functions as an antioxidant and as a metal deactivator and that has a relatively high resistance to extraction. The level of the bifunctional portion of the stabilizer in the cellular material is substantially greater than that in the skin inasmuch as it has been found that the level of the stabilizer cellular layer contiguous to the copper wire determines the oxidation performance level of the composite insulation.

Metallic transmission medium disposed in stabilized plastic insulation

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Edward Dennis Nelson