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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Coming Cable Systems Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Inventors:
Donald Andrew Burris, Peoria, AZ (US);
Mark Edward Conner, Granite Falls, NC (US);
Tory Allen Klavuhn, Newton, NC (US);
Lars Kristian Nielsen, Hickory, NC (US);
Assignee:
Corning Cable Systems LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/44 (2006.01); G02B 6/00 (2006.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/4415 (2013.01); G02B 6/4416 (2013.01); G02B 6/4471 (2013.01); H04W 88/085 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hybrid cable assembly includes a hybrid cable, tether tubes, and an overmold. The hybrid cable includes both electrical-conductor and fiber-optic elements. The tethers receive a subset of the elements from the hybrid cable at a transition location in the form of a chamber, and the overmold surrounds the transition location. The overmold is elongate, flexible, and has a low profile configured to pass through narrow ducts.