High density panel with rotating tray

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9529171-B2
Application number	US-201514657732-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2015
Priority date	Oct 21, 2002
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications equipment rack with a termination panel with such a pivoting tray mounted to the rack.

First claim

What is claimed is as follows:

1. A telecommunications termination panel comprising:
a housing including a top, a bottom, opposing sides, a front opening, and a rear opening; and
a tray pivotably mounted to the housing so as to pivot from a closed position, wherein the tray is positioned within the housing, to an open position, wherein the tray is at least partially outside the housing, through the front opening of the housing, pivoting about a vertical axis located adjacent one of the sides and including a plurality of connection locations;
wherein the tray further includes a cable clamp for temporarily attaching an end of a cable through the rear opening to the tray when the tray is in the closed position, and pivotal movement of the tray to the open position allows pulling a cable that has been attached to the clamp through the housing so that the end of the cable can be adjacent to and accessible through the front opening, and wherein a plurality of modules are mounted to the tray with each module movably mounted along a line of travel, each one of the modules including a plurality of adapters for holding a fiber optic connector, each adapter having opposite ends for coupling to a fiber optic connector, each one of the adapters movable with one of the modules along the line of travel, the adapters defining the connection locations.

2. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 1 , wherein the tray includes a cable entry adjacent the vertical axis.

3. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 2 , wherein the tray further includes a cable management structure for routing optical fiber cables from the cable entry to the connection locations.

4. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 2 , wherein the housing includes a cable anchor adjacent the rear opening to anchor at least one multi-fiber fiber optic cable extending through the rear opening.

5. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 4 , wherein the cable anchor is oriented horizontally.

6. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 2 , wherein the cable entry of the tray includes a bend radius protection structure.

7. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 1 , wherein the tray swings through an arc of approximately ninety degrees between the closed and the open positions.

8. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 1 , wherein a corner of the tray is relieved to improve access through the front opening into the housing when the tray is in the open position.

9. The telecommunications termination panel of claim 8 , wherein the relieved corner of the tray includes the cable clamp for temporarily attaching an end of a cable.

Assignees

• Commscope Technologies Llc

Inventors

• Knudsen Clinton M
• Thompson Patrick J

Classifications

• G02B6/44526

  Panels or rackmounts covering a whole width of the frame or rack · CPC title

• G02B6/44528

  Patch-cords; Connector arrangements in the system or in the box (routing arrangements H04Q1/00) · CPC title

• G02B6/4452 Primary

  Distribution frames · CPC title

• H04Q2201/804

  in optical transmission systems · CPC title

• G02B6/3825

  with an intermediate part, e.g. adapter, receptacle, linking two plugs · CPC title