Modular cable
CA 2040726 C · Owner: Arroyo, Candido John · Inventors: Arroyo, Candido John; Gotthardt, Manfred R.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An undercarpet cable (40) includes a plurality of longitudinally extending interlocking segments (42-42). The segments are designed each to have an optical fiber (33) housed therein or when interlocked in an assembly to provide a longitudinally extending cavity for receiving an optical fiber. The assembly of segments is capable of being routed along at least two paths which are normal toeach other. Advantageously longitudinal relative motion between adjacent ones of the segments and between the optical fiber and the segments is allowed. As a result the cable may be routed in tortuous paths under a carpet to service workstations as desired.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 17, 1991 and granted June 30, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 17, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 17, 2013.
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