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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2017
Ofs Fitel, Llc, Norcross, GA (US);
John E Pacini, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Brian Violette, East Granby, CT (US);
OFS FITEL, LLC, Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an optical cable connection comprising a buffer sleeve having an inner portion and an outer portion; where the inner portion comprises an optical core that is operative to transmit light; and a tight buffer layer disposed on the core; where the buffer sleeve is trimmed back at its end to provide an exposed protruding length of the tight buffer layer with the core included therein; where the outer portion of the buffer sleeve is configured to form a socket that is operative to receive a connector ferrule; where the connector ferrule comprises; an annular tubular plug having a center opening; where the annular tubular plug mates with the socket formed in the outer portion of the buffer sleeve; a ferrule seated in the plug; where the ferrule receives the exposed protruding length of the tight buffer layer that extends axially outwardly from the buffer sleeve into the center opening of the ferrule.