Cable Breakout With Integrated Strain Relief

摘要

An improved cable breakout assembly is disclosed for use with a trunk cable and multiple breakout wires, or cables exiting from the trunk cable. A protective housing has a series of cable cradles, each of which accommodates a cable or wire in the cable transition area. The cable cradles have inwardly facing stop surfaces and stop members are applied to the exterior surfaces of the cables proximate to the cable cradles. The stop members encircle the cables and define a shoulder or stop surface in opposition to the stop surfaces of the cable cradles. The two stop surfaces confront each other and prevent movement of the cables out of the housing, so to provide an integrated strain relief to the cable transition area.

主权项

1. A cable transition structure comprising, in combination:
a trunk cable, the trunk cable including an outer insulative covering that defines a hollow passage extending axially for a predetermined length of the trunk cable, the trunk cable having a preselected outer diameter; a plurality of breakout cables extending axially within the passage, each of the breakout cables having an associated outer insulative covering with a preselected outer diameter, the breakout cables exiting from the hollow passage at a transition area, and the trunk cable diameter being different from the breakout cable diameters, the trunk cable having a free end at which the breakout cables exit therefrom; and a housing including at least two interengaging portions that cooperatively define a hollow interior space for enclosing the trunk cable free end and portions of the breakout cables proximate to the trunk cable free end, the housing having a first exit passage for receiving the trunk cable therein and a plurality of second exit passages for respectively receiving the breakout cables therein, and the trunk and breakout cables including stop members disposed on their exterior surfaces with the outer insulative coverings that oppose confronting surfaces of the housing proximate to the housing first and second ends.