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Connecting optical fibers

  • US 6,810,194 B2
  • Filed: 06/14/2002
  • Issued: 10/26/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An assembly for use in connecting optical fibres, said assembly comprising a housing for optical fibre joints and a fibre routing device associated with said housing, said housing having a first inlet for receiving optical fibres from a primary side of an optical fibre network and a second inlet for receiving optical fibres from a customer side of an optical fibre network and defining pathways leading from said first and second inlets to an interior region of said housing that includes locating portions for locating optical fibre joints, and said fibre routing device having an insert portion axially insertable into said second inlet for locating and supporting the routing device relative to the housing, at least two inlets for receiving optical fibres from said customer side of the optical fibre network and an outlet defined in said insert portion and connected with said routing device inlets such that fibres from said customer side of an optical fibre network received in said routing device inlets are routed into said second inlet of the housing via said routing device outlet.

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