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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2019
United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Patuxent River, MD (US);
Mark Beranek, Hollywood, MD (US);
Nicholas Peterson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Bradley Yost, Mechanicsville, MD (US);
Michael Block, St. Leonard, MD (US);
Elizabeth Meiser, Baltimore, MD (US);
Amanda Cabrera, White Plains, MD (US);
Frederick Lancaster, Dameron, MD (US);
Justin Klock, Lexington Park, MD (US);
William Boyden, Hughesville, MD (US);
The United States Government as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A fiber optic mechanical splice for splicing input and output optical fiber. The splice includes a capillary tube for enclosing fiber ends of the input and output optical fiber cables, two metallic cable-splice bridging flanges for insertion onto the input and output optical fiber cable jackets, a first metallic crimping tube, a second metallic crimping tube, a first protection tube, a second protection tube, and polyurethane tape. The fibers extending from the input and output optical fibers can be frustoconically inserted into a corresponding bridging flange. The crimping tubes enclose corresponding cable ends and bridging flanges. The first protection tube encloses the crimping tubes, while the second protection tube encloses the first protection tube and the tape is disposed over the second protection tube, the bridging flanges, and the crimping tubes.