Patent ID: 11914209
Assignee: PRYSMIAN S.P.A.
Field: Optics (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A method of manufacturing a pre-terminated optical cable, the method comprising:
exposing a plurality of tubes by removing an outer jacket of an optical cable from a termination segment of the optical cable, the termination segment extending from a main body of the optical cable, the main body having a first diameter;
setting respective lengths of the plurality of tubes to be staggered from each other;
terminating optical fibers of the plurality of tubes with multi-fiber connectors, wherein the multi-fiber connectors are arranged at multiple angular locations around a central axis and at multiple radial positions around the central axis, the multi-fiber connectors are positioned at multiple locations along a length of the termination segment, and wherein a first multi-fiber connector and a second multi-fiber connector are arranged at a same angular location around the central axis, the first multi-fiber connector and the second multi-fiber connector being arranged at different locations along the length of the termination segment; and
binding the plurality of tubes and the multi-fiber connectors in the termination segment with a wrapper, wherein after binding the plurality of tubes and the multi-fiber connectors, the termination segment excluding the wrapper has a second diameter, the second diameter being the same or smaller than the first diameter.