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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Pirelli General PLC, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/00 ; G02B 6/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/00 ; G02B 6/36 ;
Abstract
An assembly for use in connecting optical fibers includes a housing ( ) for optical fiber joints and a fiber routing device ( ) associated with the housing. The housing has a first inlet ( ) for receiving optical fibers from a primary side of an optical fiber network and a second inlet ( ) for receiving optical fibers from a customer side of an optical fiber network. The fiber routing device ( ) has an outlet ( ) for feeding fibers from the customer side of the optical fiber network into the second inlet ( ) and two inlets ( ) for receiving the customer-side optical fibers for feeding to its outlet.