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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2013
Corning Optical Communications Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Terry Lee Cooke, Hickory, NC (US);
Christopher Shawn Houser, Hickory, NC (US);
Ronald Alan Leonard, Connelly Springs, NC (US);
James McKinnley Wilson, Bronston, KY (US);
Corning Optical Communications LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein include furcation plugs having segregated channels to guide epoxy into passageways for optical fiber furcation, and related assemblies and methods. The furcation plugs secure furcated fiber optic cables to fiber optic equipment to prevent the furcated fiber optic cables from being damaged. The furcation plugs, as part of fiber optic furcation assemblies, are typically installed on fiber optic equipment that provides fiber optic components to which the optical fibers are connected. The fiber optic cables may be inserted into fiber passageways of the furcation plugs and secured to the furcation plugs with epoxy. The epoxy may be guided into the fiber passageways through segregated epoxy channels of the furcation plug. In this manner, epoxy may be more uniformly distributed within the fiber passageway to improve the epoxy bonds by reducing the occurrence of air pockets known as voids, which can weaken the epoxy bonds and cause attenuation.