Amp LLC

The Whitaker Corporation

Michael W Bricker

Donald W Thompson

Wills J Xu

A ribbon cable (2) for a hybrid branch cable (1) . The ribbon cable (2) includes a corrugated binder ribbon (30) which facilitates bundling and encapsulation within a tubular outer casing (50). The binder ribbon (30) is corrugated along sections which bridge the conductors (10-12 and 21-26) carried therein. The pattern of corrugations may be formed in one or both opposing surfaces of the bridging section of the binder ribbon (30) and may include a series of ripples, angled notches, rectangular notches, trapezoidal notches, etc.

Flexible hybrid branch cable

An article is molded in a mold cavity where the article has a profiled bore extending axially therethrough which has a precisely centered small diameter bore section at one end thereof. A mold cavity is defined by lower and upper mold halves and has a cavity axis, and a core pin having a precisely centered needle-like tip section at the upper end extends upwardly from the lower mold half coaxially through the mold cavity. Its needle-like tip section extends into a precisely centered small diameter bore of a nose piece at the upper end of the mold cavity when the mold halves are closed. The nose piece can be adjusted vertically within the upper mold half to vary the distance the core pin tip extends thereinto to vary the length of the forward end of the molded article.

Method for molding a plastic ferrule for use in connectors for optical

Tooling holds a workpiece for the performance of a work step thereon or thereby, which supercenters the workpiece relative to a concentrically rotatable cylinder of an apparatus. A method of supercentering a workpiece utiliezs the tooling of the invention. The tooling has a workpiece clamping subassembly which is substantially centerable with respect to a centering member and then secured thereto forming a centering subassembly. The centering member has a centering projection which is supercenterable with respect to a holder by means of several axially normal adjustment screws engaging side surfaces of the centering projection. The holder has a cylindrical arm to be clamped in a collet chuck of the rotatable cylinder of the apparatus. The method utilizes slowly rotating the cylinder, thereby rotating the tooling and the clamped workpiece, and determining eccentricity of rotation thereof, and making appropriate incremental adjustments using the adjustment screws. Work steps may then be performed on or by the workpiece.

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Brodbecks, PA, United States of America

Michael W Bricker