Patents by Inventor Ronald Richard Schaffer

Ronald Richard Schaffer 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: 6024610
    Abstract: A cable connection assembly including an enclosure which houses a plurality of cable connection modules, each having a frame structure, a plurality of receptacles and a housing. The receptacles are mounted through a first frame wall and a housing structure is connected to the frame structure to enclose a portion of each receptacle extending from one side of the wall. In operation, a first cable is located to one side of the wall and connected to one of the receptacles and a second cable is located to the opposite side of the wall and connected to the same receptacle to interconnect the cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventor: Ronald Richard Schaffer
  • Patent number: 5933563
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sealed enclosure which houses fiber optic cable in a manner accepted in the field. The sealed enclosure for a cable includes a floor surface, the floor surface having a discontinuous periphery defining at least one opening in the floor surface, the at least one opening defining a pass through in the floor surface. Upstanding side and back walls extend from the floor surface, and a ceiling surface joins with the side and back walls opposite to the floor surface. At least one door is mounted to a front of the enclosure and against corresponding edges of the floor surface, side walls, and ceiling surface. A sealing assembly is positioned over the at least one opening in the floor surface to seal the enclosure from the external environment upon insertion of the cable within the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Richard Schaffer, John Carey Hoffer
  • Patent number: 5640482
    Abstract: A cable management rack (10) for supporting and routing pluralities of fiber optic cables (24) to and from optical interconnection sites of stacks of interconnection enclosures (22). First brackets (40) along end frame members (14) enable securing of the cables routed vertically, and also support removable rack cover panels (18). Second brackets (70,70A, 90) include arcuate cable support surfaces (72) for routing selected cables 90.degree. (or 180.degree.) about bends having radiuses great enough to protect the optical fibers of the cables. The second brackets (70,70A, 90) are removably affixable to the end frame members (14) or to intermediate frame members (16) at any location along a columnar array of fastening sites (34) beside the enclosure stacks, to correspond to any desired location of a cable bend, with the rack thus being modular. Relay brackets (110) provide for excess cable take-up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Eltringham Barry, Matthew Jon Fasnacht, Ronald Richard Schaffer