Patent ID: 8238705
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: B29D,G02B

Abstract:
1. A fiber optic cable assembly, comprising: a fiber optic cable including at least one buffer tube with at least one cable optical fiber therein and at least one mid-span access location at which at least one pre-selected optical fiber is preterminated and routed away from uncut optical fiber through an exit opening in the buffer tube; at least one tether attached at the mid-span access location and including at least one tether optical fiber therein; a flexible body substantially encapsulating the at least one mid-span access location; and a splitter located at the mid-span access location and in the flexible body that splits the at least one preterminated optical fiber into a first optical fiber having a loop within the flexible body and that is optically connected to the at least one tether optical fiber and a second optical fiber that is optically connected to a downstream portion of the at least one preterminated optical fiber at a location with the flexible body; wherein the at least one optical fiber connected to the downstream portion of the at least one preterminated optical fiber enters the buffer tube in an in an access opening within the buffer tube; and wherein the fiber optic cable including the flexible body flexibly bends along the mid-span access location thereby bending the at least one preterminated optical fiber, the first optical fiber, the at least one tether optical fiber and the second optical fiber locations within the flexible body.