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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:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2008
Junsheng Zhou, Shanghai, CN;
Pierre Bonvallat, Cluses, FR;
Zhiyong Xu, Shanghai, FR;
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a splice holder, which is used for holding at least one splicing sleeve (), each of the splicing sleeves () is used for coupling two optical fibers. The splice holder comprises: a body; a splice channel () provided on the body; and an elastic device () in each splice channel, wherein the elastic device holds the splicing sleeve () elastically in the splice channel. The present invention also includes a communication socket having a splice holder mounted therein. By the splice holder of present invention, optical fiber connection points can be accommodated in a communication socket, so that electrical cables and optical fibers in the communication socket may be managed in an orderly way. Furthermore, inclusion of the inventive splice holder ensures than a minimum bending radius of optical fiber can be maintained when the optical fiber is stored in the communication socket.