Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Kampf
Thomas W. Kampf has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20040258386Abstract: A cable exit trough defining an insert aperture for receiving a modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough. The exit trough may also include an exit cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Applicant: ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventors: Michael J. Wentworth, Brian L. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts
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Patent number: 6763169Abstract: A cable exit trough defining an insert aperture for receiving a modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough. The exit trough may also include an exit cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2003Date of Patent: July 13, 2004Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Wentworth, Brian L. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts
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Publication number: 20040124321Abstract: A telecommunications cable management system includes a planar base element including a planar top surface and side edges. Side elements are mounted with a mating arrangement to the base element. The side elements may include one or more of the following: upstanding wall portions, side exits extending horizontally, and downspouts. The base elements and the upstanding wall portions may have a continuous cross-section, and can be cut to the desired length for the cable management system. The downspout and side exit elements may also include multiple components wherein a central section of each can be cut to the desired width.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2003Publication date: July 1, 2004Applicant: ADC Telecommunications Inc.Inventors: Thomas W. Kampf, Mathew D. Ferris, Joel T. Fisher, Timothy J. Haataja, Brian L. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Alex Watts
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Publication number: 20040017993Abstract: A cable exit trough defining an insert aperture for receiving a modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough. The exit trough may also include an exit cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2003Publication date: January 29, 2004Applicant: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Wentworth, Brian L. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts
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Patent number: 6631875Abstract: A telecommunications cable management system includes a planar base element including a planar top surface and side edges. Side elements are mounted with a mating arrangement to the base element. The side elements may include one or more of the following: upstanding wall portions, side exits extending horizontally, and downspouts. The base elements and the upstanding wall portions may have a continuous cross-section, and can be cut to the desired length for the cable management system. The downspout and side exit elements may also include multiple components wherein a central section of each can be cut to the desired width.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2000Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Thomas W. Kampf, Mathew D. Ferris, Joel T. Fisher, Timothy J. Haataja, Brian L. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Alex Watts
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Patent number: 6625373Abstract: A cable exit trough defining an insert aperture for receiving a modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough. The exit trough may also include an exit cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Wentworth, Brian L. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts
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Publication number: 20030165316Abstract: A cable exit trough with pivoting cover. The cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough. The exit trough may define an insert aperture for receiving modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2003Publication date: September 4, 2003Applicant: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Johnson, Brian L. Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts, Michael J. Wentworth
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Patent number: 6585195Abstract: A curved telescoping trough assembly and method of assembly. The assembly includes first and second trough members. Each trough member includes two upstanding sidewalls extending from a base defining a generally U-shaped trough having an open top and a trough interior for receiving at least one telecommunications cable defining a cable pathway. The sidewalls or the base of the trough members may be curved to create a curved cable pathway. The first trough member having an end which slidably receives an end of the second trough member and a portion of the second trough member so that the trough members create a combined angled cable pathway. The size of the portion of the second trough member received by the first trough member is variable so that the trough assembly may be selectively set at a third angle from a range of angles.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Mike Wentworth, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts, Pat Nault
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Patent number: 6535683Abstract: A cable exit trough with pivoting cover. The cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough. The exit trough may define an insert aperture for receiving modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Wayne Johnson, Brian L. Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts, Michael J. Wentworth
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Patent number: 6512875Abstract: A coupling and assembly for a cable routing system, the system having trough members with flanged ends. The coupling includes a U-shaped rib having a rail on an exterior surface of the rib. The coupling also includes a pivoting clamp pivotally coupled to the rib near a first end of the clamp so that the clamp may be pivoted between an open and a closed position. The clamp has a contoured clamping surface which is contoured to retain the flanged ends of adjacent troughs against the rail and the external surface of the rib when the pivoting clamp is in the closed position. The clamp also includes retention means which cooperate with retention means on the rib to releasably retain the clamp in its closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Brian L. Johnson, Mathew D. Ferris, Joel T. Fisher, Wayne Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts
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Publication number: 20020158170Abstract: A curved telescoping trough assembly and method of assembly. The assembly includes first and second trough members. Each trough member includes two upstanding sidewalls extending from a base defining a generally U-shaped trough having an open top and a trough interior for receiving at least one telecommunications cable defining a cable pathway. The sidewalls or the base of the trough members may be curved to create a curved cable pathway. The first trough member having an end which slidably receives an end of the second trough member and a portion of the second trough member so that the trough members create a combined angled cable pathway. The size of the portion of the second trough member received by the first trough member is variable so that the trough assembly may be selectively set at a third angle from a range of angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2001Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Mike Wentworth, Thomas W. Kampf, Alex Watts, Pat Nault
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Patent number: 6470129Abstract: A modular cable management trough system and method of assembly. Cable management trough includes a trough body having first and second terminal ends, first and second upright walls extending between the first and second terminal ends, and a base wall between the first and second upright walls, extending between the first and second terminal ends. The first and second upright walls and the base wall define a generally U-shaped trough having an open top and a trough interior for receiving at least one telecommunications cable. The trough body defines a receiving channel at the first end of the trough body. The channel has upright portions along the first and second upright walls and a base portion along the base wall. The channel may slidably receive a flanged end of an adjacent trough section in order to couple the adjacent trough section to modular trough section.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2000Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Wentworth, Brian L. Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Thomas W. Kampf, John Van Scoy, Alex Watts