Kenneth Ray Lane

US Patent:

20030147604, Aug 7, 2003

Filed:

Feb 1, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/061821

Inventors:

Alejandro Tapia - Spartanburg SC, US
Conley McGee - Simpsonsville SC, US
Kenneth Lane - Hendersonville NC, US

International Classification:

G02B006/44
G02B006/00

US Classification:

385/101000, 385/135000

Abstract:

A grounding and transition assembly for providing combined electrical grounding and distributed transition of a bundle of fiber optic strands associated with a fiber optic cable. The assembly includes a three dimensional housing having an assembleable top and bottom and defining a first section proximate an inlet end for seating an inserting end of the fiber optic cable. The assembleable top and bottom further defining a second substantially open interior section communicable with the first section and extending to an open outlet end. A grounding cable has a first end secured to the three dimensional housing, a second end of the grounding cable securing to a remote location from said housing and providing for conducting of electrical charge associated with the fiber optic cable away from the housing. A three dimensional insert sealingly engages within the second interior section and includes a plurality of interiorly defined apertures. A plurality of elongated tubular portions are seatingly engaged within associated apertures in the insert, each of the tubular portions receiving exposed portions of each sub-divided plurality of the bundled fibers and prior to the individual fiber bundles passage through the outlet end.