End assembly for connection to end of ground wire with optical fiber

摘要

An end assembly for connection to a ground wire incorporating an optical fiber cable therein includes a tubular compression sleeve of a plastically deformable material, a protective sleeve received in the compression sleeve and having a bulged portion intermediate opposite ends thereof, and a filler member interposed between the compression sleeve and the protective sleeve. The ground wire comprises a protective tube, an optical fiber cable housed in the protective tube, and a plurality of ground wire elements helically wound around the protective tube. The wire elements are unwound from the protective tube at the end of the ground wire to provide an exposed end portion thereof. The protective sleeve is adapted to be fitted on the exposed end portion of the protective tube with the unwound end portions of the wire elements interposed between the protective sleeve and the filler member. The compression sleeve is compressible to be plastically deformed radially inwardly to firmly hold the unwound wire end portions against an outer peripheral surface of the protective sleeve through said filler member.