Slidable fiber optic connection module with cable slack management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9958629-B2
Application number	US-201615206834-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 11, 2016
Priority date	Feb 27, 2013
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A telecommunications device includes a rack defining right, left, front, rear, top, and bottom sides, the rack defining mounting locations in a stacked arrangement from the bottom to the top, the mounting locations for receiving modules defining connection locations. A cable storage bay is located at one of the right and left sides of the rack and defines front and rear cable storage areas. Both the front and rear cable storage areas include cable management structures for managing and guiding cables toward and away from the connection locations. A trough is defined at the top of the rack, the trough configured for extending cables to other racks in a front to rear direction, the trough also defining a cable drop-off communicating with the cable storage bay for extending cables to either of the front or rear cable storage areas for further connection to the connection locations.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fiber optic telecommunications device comprising:
a telecommunications rack defining a right side, a left side, a front side, a rear side, a top, and a bottom, the telecommunications rack defining mounting locations arranged in a stacked arrangement from the bottom to the top of the rack, the mounting locations configured to receive telecommunications modules defining fiber optic connection locations;
the telecommunications rack further including a trough defined at the top of the rack, the trough configured for extending cables to other telecommunications racks in a front to rear direction, the trough further communicating with a cable drop-off defined at at least one of the right and left sides of the rack for guiding cables in a top to bottom direction to the fiber optic connection locations defined by the telecommunications modules that can be mounted at the mounting locations.

2. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one telecommunications module mounted to one of the mounting locations.

3. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 2 , wherein the fiber optic connection locations of the at least one telecommunications module are defined by fiber optic adapters.

4. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 1 , wherein the telecommunications rack further defines a plurality of horizontal rear troughs arranged in a stacked arrangement from the bottom to the top of the rack, the horizontal rear troughs configured for extending cables to other racks along a right to left direction.

5. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 2 , wherein the at least one telecommunications module is slidably mounted to a telecommunications frame which is fixedly mounted to the rack.

6. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 5 , wherein each telecommunications frame is configured to hold a plurality of slidably mounted telecommunications modules.

7. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 1 , wherein the telecommunications rack includes cable management structures for guiding cables from the cable drop-off to the fiber optic connection locations of the telecommunications modules that can be mounted at the mounting locations.

8. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 7 , wherein the cable management structures are defined by spools.

9. A fiber optic telecommunications device according to claim 7 , wherein the cable management structures are defined by fingers.

Assignees

• Commscope Technologies Llc

Inventors

• Solheid James J
• Kmit Paul
• Haataja Timothy
• Szklarz Rob

Classifications

• G02B6/3897

  Connectors fixed to housings, casing, frames or circuit boards (G02B6/44528 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02B6/4457

  Bobbins; Reels · CPC title

• G02B6/4478

  Bending relief means · CPC title

• H01R4/58

  characterised by the form or material of the contacting members (H01R4/01 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G02B6/4455

  characterised by the way of extraction or insertion of the cassette in the distribution frame, e.g. pivoting, sliding, rotating or gliding · CPC title