Patents by Inventor Peter A. CARAPELLA

Peter A. CARAPELLA 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).

  • Patent number: 11947179
    Abstract: A reel enclosure includes a base and a door pivotally coupled with the base. The door is movable between a first closed position and a second open position and is configured to hold a reel at an interior surface of the door. The reel is configured to have cable wound thereon. In the first closed position, the base is configured to prevent the reel from rotating relative to the door and the base, and, in the second open position, the door is configured to hold the reel outside of an interior of the base and permit the reel to rotate relative to the door and the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Daoust, Peter A. Carapella, Noah P. Montena
  • Publication number: 20230324630
    Abstract: A fiber optic connector includes a ferrule holder configured to receive a ferrule that terminates an optical fiber cable, a connector sub-assembly configured to receive an optical fiber cable and to hold the ferrule holder, a connector body configured to hold the connector sub-assembly, a shroud configured to encircle the connector body, and a housing configured to encircle a portion of the shroud. The connector body is configured to include a first mating member and a second mating member. The first mating member is configured to include a cantilevered flange, and the second mating member is configured to include a groove on an inner surface of the second mating member. The cantilevered flange is configured to engage with the groove to securely fasten the first mating member with the second mating member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: William CRAWFORD, Peter CARAPELLA, Noah MONTENA, Tom CARPENTER
  • Publication number: 20230296856
    Abstract: A telecommunications box includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion pivotally coupled with the first housing portion, an adapter panel removably coupled with the first housing portion, and an inner cover pivotally coupled with the first housing portion and removably coupled with the adapter panel. The adapter panel is configured to be uncoupled from the first housing so as to be pivotal with the inner cover relative to the first housing portion to a raised configuration that provides a technician with improved access to the adapter panel, and the adapter panel is configured to be uncoupled from the inner cover while remaining coupled with the first housing portion in a stowed configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Jay KISSELSTEIN, Cameron James ADAMS, Peter CARAPELLA, Brian P. HONSINGER
  • Patent number: 11719900
    Abstract: A compartmentalized enclosure for controlling access to different components in a telecommunications system including a lower housing member shaped to define an outer perimeter portion and a cavity, a panel member configured to move between a closed panel position, where the panel member prevents access to equipment within the cavity, and an open panel position, where the panel member permits access to the cavity, wherein the panel member is disposed in the cavity of the lower housing member, and is shaped to define a inner perimeter portion that is configured to substantially match and fit within the outer perimeter portion of the lower housing member so as to form a substantially perimeter matching portion that prevents access to equipment within the cavity between the inner perimeter portion and the outer perimeter portion when the panel member is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Peter A. Carapella, Noah Montena, Brian Hanson
  • Patent number: 11698500
    Abstract: An access control device for permitting access to a coaxial cable component while selectively blocking access to a fiber optical component including an access control panel member configured to be coupled to a coaxial cable component while blocking access to a fiber optical component, the coaxial cable component configured to be coupled to a coaxial cable and an optical fiber configuration base member configured to be coupled to an optical fiber component and to arrange the optical fiber component so as to create a peripheral optical fiber cable path around a portion of the optical fiber component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Brian K. Hanson, Peter Carapella
  • Publication number: 20230213718
    Abstract: A cable storage system that may include a mounting portion that is configured to extend from a wall portion of a cable storage enclosure, and an envelope portion. The envelope portion may be configured to contain a coil of cable. The envelope portion may include an envelope opening portion that may be located on an edge portion of the envelopment portion. The mounting portion may be configured to support the envelope portion though the envelope opening portion. The envelope portion may be configured to support the coil of cable in the envelope portion so as to restrict the coil of cable from expanding and interfering with contents of the cable storage enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Michael LANGMAN, Ravindra K. VORA, Peter CARAPELLA, Gerald Joseph MEIER
  • Publication number: 20230213705
    Abstract: A hardened fiber optic adapter that may include a body portion having a first end portion that is configured to receive a hardened fiber optic connector and a second end portion that may be located opposite to the first end portion, a flexible fiber cable lead portion that may include an optical fiber cable and a protection tube portion that may be configured to surround the optical fiber cable, and an adapter subassembly portion that may be configured to be coupled with a preterminated end of the optical fiber cable at a first end portion of the flexible fiber cable lead. A second end portion of the flexible fiber cable lead portion may be configured to be coupled with a drop terminal such that the adapter is permitted to be moved relative to the drop terminal to a predetermined connection orientation that is configured to allow the adapter to be connected to a hardened fiber optic connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: William L. CRAWFORD, Peter A. CARAPELLA
  • Publication number: 20230213722
    Abstract: A multi-fiber breakout assembly may include a breakout body portion that may be configured to break out a plurality of fiber cables from a multi-fiber cable, a body portion that may include a body-to-coupler engaging portion and a radially inward body-to-cable engaging portion that may be configured to engage an outwardly facing cable portion of a cable, and a coupler portion that may include a coupler-to-body engaging portion that may be configured to engage the body-to-coupler engaging portion of the body portion when the connector assembly is terminated on a cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony BLASIE, Nicholas V. CLAVER, Peter A. CARAPELLA
  • Publication number: 20230213719
    Abstract: A cable storage container may include a base portion having a cavity and a base opening portion, a cover portion that may be configured to be attached to the base portion so as to cover the base opening portion, and a module portion that may be configured to be removed from and replaced in the base portion. The module portion may include a plurality of cable bundle receptacles that each may be configured to receive a portion of a cable bundle, and each two adjacent ones of the cable bundle receptacles may be separated by a separating wall portion, and the module portion may be configured to support the cable bundle in one of the cable bundle receptacles so as to restrict the cable bundle from expanding and interfering with contents of the base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Michael LANGMAN, Peter CARAPELLA, Gerald Joseph MEIER
  • Publication number: 20230194796
    Abstract: A fiber optic connector includes a body portion and a coupling portion configured to be coupled with the body portion. The body portion is configured to receive a fiber optic cable, and the coupling portion is configured to radially compress a portion of the body portion onto an outer jacket of a fiber optic cable to clamp the outer jacket and to prevent relative axial movement between the fiber optic cable and the connector when the coupling portion is coupled with the body portion so as to mechanically couple the body portion with the fiber optic cable without having to use a crimping tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas V. CLAVER, William CRAWFORD, Peter CARAPELLA, Brian HONSINGER
  • Patent number: 11675140
    Abstract: A fiber optic connector includes a ferrule holder configured to receive a ferrule that terminates an optical fiber cable, a connector sub-assembly configured to receive an optical fiber cable and to hold the ferrule holder, a connector body configured to hold the connector sub-assembly, a shroud configured to encircle the connector body, and a housing configured to encircle a portion of the shroud. The connector body is configured to include a first mating member and a second mating member. The first mating member is configured to include a cantilevered flange, and the second mating member is configured to include a groove on an inner surface of the second mating member. The cantilevered flange is configured to engage with the groove to securely fasten the first mating member with the second mating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: William Crawford, Peter Carapella, Noah Montena, Tom Carpenter
  • Publication number: 20230176309
    Abstract: A connector storage includes a storage block including a plurality of chambers. Each of the plurality of chambers includes an open first end at a front wall and a substantially closed second end at a rear wall. The storage block is configured to include first voids and/or second voids between adjacent ones of the plurality of chambers. Each of the plurality of chambers includes a substantially circular perimeter wall that includes first and second wall portions between the respective chamber and respective ones of the first and second voids. The perimeter wall is configured to have a first diameter that is smaller than a second diameter of a circle that circumscribes corners of the fiber optic connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Robert SCHIFFBAUER, Peter CARAPELLA, Steven M. WALDREN
  • Patent number: 11656421
    Abstract: A telecommunications box includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion pivotally coupled with the first housing portion, an adapter panel removably coupled with the first housing portion, and an inner cover pivotally coupled with the first housing portion and removably coupled with the adapter panel. The adapter panel is configured to be uncoupled from the first housing so as to be pivotal with the inner cover relative to the first housing portion to a raised configuration that provides a technician with improved access to the adapter panel, and the adapter panel is configured to be uncoupled from the inner cover while remaining coupled with the first housing portion in a stowed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Jay Kisselstein, Cameron James Adams, Peter Carapella, Brian P. Honsinger
  • Publication number: 20230134340
    Abstract: An optical fiber feed-through connector for optically coupling an end portion of an optical fiber cable with a non-feed-through optical fiber connector includes a feed-through duct engaging portion having a body member and a compression fitting portion configured to radially compress a portion of the body member around the free end portion of the duct and a feed-through housing portion configured to be operatively coupled to the feed-through duct engaging portion so as to allow the end portion of the optical fiber cable to be slidingly fed through the feed-through housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Peter A. CARAPELLA, Noah MONTENA, William CRAWFORD
  • Publication number: 20230057307
    Abstract: A multi-fiber reel and adapter assembly includes a base, a cable reel mounted to the base, and a plurality of adapters fixedly mounted to the base. The cable reel is configured to rotate relative to the base and the adapters, and each of the adapters is configured to couple a fiber optic cable from the cable reel with a fiber optic drop cable that is configured to run from the respective adapter to a location of an end user that is remote from the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Noah P. MONTENA, Peter CARAPELLA, Cameron J. ADAMS
  • Patent number: 11579380
    Abstract: A connector includes a body and a cap configured to be threadedly coupled with the body. The body is configured to receive a fiber optic cable therein and to be coupled with a sub-assembly of a fiber optic connector, an inner surface of the body includes an annularly-extending ridge that protrudes radially inward, and the body is configured to be radially compressed on a jacket of the fiber optic cable when the cap is threadedly coupled with the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas V. Claver, William Crawford, Peter Carapella, Brian Honsinger
  • Patent number: 11531167
    Abstract: A connector for coupling a fiber optic cable with a connection point includes a connector body at a first end of the connector and extending in a longitudinal direction and a connector housing at a second end of the connector. The connector body defines a first longitudinal conduit configured to receive a duct, and the duct is configured to slidingly receive the fiber optic cable. A compression fitting is configured to be received about a first end of the connector body and to slide relative to the connector body in the longitudinal direction to radially compress the first end of the connector body to grip the duct. The connector housing includes a second longitudinal conduit substantially aligned with the first longitudinal conduit in the longitudinal direction and a connection portion configured to couple the fiber optic cable to the connection point. The first longitudinal conduit and the second longitudinal conduit are configured to slidingly receive the fiber optic cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Peter A. Carapella, Noah Montena, William Crawford
  • Patent number: 11493718
    Abstract: A multi-fiber reel and adapter assembly includes a base, a cable reel mounted to the base, and a plurality of adapters fixedly mounted to the base. The cable reel is configured to rotate relative to the base and the adapters, and each of the adapters is configured to couple a fiber optic cable from the cable reel with a fiber optic drop cable that is configured to run from the respective adapter to a location of an end user that is remote from the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Noah P. Montena, Peter Carapella, Cameron J. Adams
  • Publication number: 20220250871
    Abstract: A reel holder includes a first reel holder member including a first frame member and a first ring member a second reel holder member including a second frame member and a second ring member. The first ring member is configured to be coupled with the first frame member such that the first ring member is configured to be rotatable relative to the first frame member, and the second ring member is configured to be coupled with the second frame member such that the second ring member is configured to be rotatable relative to the second frame member. The first ring member is configured to be coupled with a first flange of a reel, and the second ring member is configured to be coupled with a second flange of reel. The first ring member is configured to rotate relative to the first frame member when the reel is rotated, the second ring member is configured to rotate relative to the second frame when the reel is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Brian HONSINGER, Noah P. MONTENA, Peter A. CARAPELLA
  • Publication number: 20210341698
    Abstract: A reel enclosure includes a base and a door pivotally coupled with the base. The door is movable between a first closed position and a second open position and is configured to hold a reel at an interior surface of the door. The reel is configured to have cable wound thereon. In the first closed position, the base is configured to prevent the reel from rotating relative to the door and the base, and, in the second open position, the door is configured to hold the reel outside of an interior of the base and permit the reel to rotate relative to the door and the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel DAOUST, Peter A. CARAPELLA, Noah P. MONTENA