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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2003
Costas Saravanos, Highland Village, TX (US);
Elli Makrides-saravanos, Highland Village, TX (US);
Yan Hua, Ft. Worth, TX (US);
Costas Saravanos, Highland Village, TX (US);
Elli Makrides-Saravanos, Highland Village, TX (US);
Yan Hua, Ft. Worth, TX (US);
Corning Cable Systems LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
A fiber optic splitter package and method are provided for protecting a fiber optic splitter assembly while preventing adverse affects from temperature cycling. The fiber optic splitter package includes a housing, a fiber optic splitter assembly, and a flexible retainer member that holds the fiber optic splitter assembly in the housing. The flexible retainer member has a modulus of about 30 to about 80 on a Shore A hardness scale, thereby insulating the fiber optic splitter assembly from stress due to differences in the coefficients of thermal expansion of the housing and the fiber optic splitter assembly.