With Conductor Fanning Means Patents (Class 439/719)
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Patent number: 11985454Abstract: A module for a networking node is disclosed. The module includes a Printed Circuit Board (“PCB”); one or more circuits mounted to the PCB; and a faceplate that including a plurality of plates, angled relative to one another, such that the faceplate includes increased surface area relative to a substantially flat faceplate, wherein at least two plates of the plurality of plates include physical ports each having track lengths to a circuit of one or more circuits, wherein one or more of the physical ports support signals at a rate of at least 100 Gbps. Each plate of the plurality of plates can be flat. Any of the plurality of plates can include physical ports. The physical ports can be pluggable modules. Each type of the physical ports can be a same type on a given plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Simon J. E. Shearman, Fabien Colton, Daniel Rivaud, Michael R. Bishop
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Patent number: 11978974Abstract: An arrangement includes a first modular circuit board plug connector and at least one second modular circuit board plug connector for installation on a printed circuit board, wherein the circuit board plug connectors each include a plurality of individual plug connector modules and the plug connector modules are each arranged in rows on at least one connector and reversibly fastened thereto, wherein the first circuit board plug connector and the at least second circuit board plug connector are reversibly connected together via a coupling element.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Jana Buettemeyer
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Patent number: 11197390Abstract: A clip for securing one or more cables in a cable aisle of a computing device comprises a housing portion and a sliding portion. The housing portion has a first sidewall and a second sidewall that are coupled via a base. A cable channel is defined between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The cable channel is configured to accommodate the one or more cables. The sliding portion is coupled to the first sidewall of the housing portion. The sliding portion has a lifting member extending across the cable channel from the first sidewall to the second sidewall. The sliding portion is configured to be moveable between a lowered position and a raised position. The lifting member moves from a first end of the cable channel to a second end of the cable channel, when the sliding portion moves from the lowered position to the raised position.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Chun Chang, Cheng Tseng, Cheng-Hsiang Huang, Chih-Hung Yang
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Patent number: 11174126Abstract: A connection element for electrically contacting tension members embedded into a matrix material of a load-bearing belt for an elevator system has a frame with an upper part, a lower part and multiple electrically conductive contact elements. The frame is shaped to receive the belt in an interior space delimited at at least two opposite sides. The contact elements are formed as stamped and bent metal parts, and some regions of the contact elements are arranged in the upper part of the frame with other regions protruding from the upper part of the frame into the interior space, for example in the form of piercing tips, in order to contact the tension members embedded in the portion of the belt received in the interior space.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: INVENTIO AGInventor: Florian Dold
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Patent number: 11133656Abstract: A cable manager includes one or more cable manager units. Each cable manager unit includes a pair of side cable guides, each comprised of a plurality of finger-like projections extending forwardly from a support column. At least one of the pair of support columns has a socket arranged at a side thereof. Each cable manager unit further includes a separate midsection member capable of insertion into the socket for interconnecting the pair of side cable guides.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.Inventors: William Krietzman, Joshua James Young, D. Brian Donowho
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Patent number: 10608214Abstract: A first connector of a battery connector includes a battery-side busbar first terminal including a battery-side first pin insertion hole and a load-side busbar first terminal including a load-side first pin insertion hole. A second connector includes a battery-side busbar second terminal including a battery-side second pin insertion hole and a load-side busbar second terminal including a load-side second pin insertion hole. The load-side first pin insertion hole is formed in a position where the load-side first pin insertion hole does not match the battery-side second pin insertion hole when the battery-side busbar second terminal and the load-side busbar first terminal are superimposed. The load-side second pin insertion hole is formed in a position where the load-side second pin insertion hole does not match the battery-side first pin insertion hole when the battery-side busbar first terminal and the load-side busbar second terminal are superimposed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Yosuke Osako
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Patent number: 9997809Abstract: A battery module, including a plurality of rechargeable batteries; a holder fixing the rechargeable batteries; an electrode tab connecting the rechargeable batteries, the electrode tab including a bent portion bent and then extending in a side direction of the rechargeable batteries; and a balancing wire connecting the electrode tab and the protection circuit board, the bent portion of the electrode tab including a protruding portion protruding from a surface of the electrode tab.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventor: Ha-Neul Lee
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Patent number: 9252546Abstract: The invention relates to a distribution connection module (1) for telecommunications and data technology, with the distribution connection module (1) comprising a first submodule (2) and a second submodule (3), with the first and second submodule (2, 3) each having contact elements (7, 13), with the contact elements (7, 13) each having an electrical connecting contact (8, 14) and an interface contact (9, 15), with the interface contacts (9) of the first submodule (2) being electrically connected to one another by the interface contacts (15) of the second submodule (3), or with the interface contacts (9) of the first submodule (2) being connected to interface contacts (61) of a further submodule (60) and the interface contacts (15) of the second submodule (3) being connected to interface contacts (62) of a further submodule (60), with the further submodules (60) being arranged between the first and the second submodules (2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Ralf-Dieter Busse, Heiko Neumetzler, Joachim Stark, Philipp Meyer, Antony Nijhuis
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Patent number: 9075218Abstract: A rack cabling system including a rack having mounted thereon a first hardware component and a patch panel housing mounted on the rack adjacent the first hardware component. The patch panel housing populates no more than a three rack unit (RU space), the patch panel housing including a first end having cable pathway openings and a second end having connector elements mounted therein. The patch panel may have a first cable pathway opening located adjacent the first side of the housing and defining a primary position and a first connector element mounted on the second end and the first connector element having a first position corresponding to the primary position of the first cable pathway opening. Cable harnesses are routed with less than three bends of the cables between the first hardware component and the patch panel housing, so the first cable harness is terminated at the first connector element in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Methode Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Michael R. Carter, David E. Hildreth, Robert C. Neumann, Tyler M. Miller
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Patent number: 9022814Abstract: A sealing and strain relief device having at least one sealing element is disclosed. The device is arranged in the manner of a sandwich between outer, plate-like bearing elements made from a relatively hard or rigid material and which is made from a relatively soft or elastic material. Slots are introduced both into the outer bearing elements and into the or each central sealing element in such a way that the slots run respectively next to one another and respectively one behind the other, in relation to the sandwich-like arrangement thereof, within the respective bearing element and within the respective sealing element. The strain relief elements are associated with at least one plate-like bearing element such that each data cable, which is sealed and is guided in the region of slots arranged one behind the other of the sandwich-like arrangement, can be restrained using a strain relief element.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: CCS Technology, Inc.Inventors: Grzegorz Fabrykowski, Michael Müller, Sven Strunck
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Patent number: 8867234Abstract: Protective containers for electronic equipment, and methods of testing and manufacture thereof, are provided. Enclosure systems and methods for protecting telecommunications equipment from electromagnetic fields include cabinets having a maximum width dimension that does not exceed about 26 inches and a maximum depth dimension that does not exceed about 22? inches. The cabinets provide a HEMP protection level to electronic equipment housed therein that meets a HEMP protection level according to MIL-STD-188-125-1.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Qwest Communications International Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Heimann, Jennifer Edison, Howard Bylund, Andrew Bruno
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Patent number: 8785778Abstract: A PALS compliant routing system includes flexible fabric cabling routed through the webbing of a PALS grid. A first connector or device is coupled to the cabling. Other connectors coupled to the cabling subsystem include a retention mechanism configured to retain them in the channels of the PALS webbing.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.Inventors: Richard Streeter, Brian Farrell
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Patent number: 8435086Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a bracket for mounting a vertical cable manager to a rack. The bracket includes a first portion extending in a first direction, a second portion extending from the first portion in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a third portion extending from the second portion in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the second direction and substantially parallel to the first direction. The first portion of the bracket is adapted to snap-fit to the vertical cable manager.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Michael J. McGrath, Max W. Hibner, Thomas Chung Yin Wong
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Patent number: 8398002Abstract: A fuel injection device includes a pressure control portion for controlling operation of a nozzle, and a body portion having therein a bent lead wire hole through which two lead wires of the pressure control portion are introduced to exterior. A first guide member having therein a pair of first guide grooves partitioned by a first partition member is inserted into the lead wire hole from one end side, a second guide member having therein a pair of second guide grooves partitioned by a second partition member is inserted into the lead wire hole from the other end side. The first partition member protrudes from one end portion of the first guide member to have a protrusion portion, which is fitted with a recess portion of the second partition portion at one end portion of the second guide member when the first and second guide members contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Shu Kagami, Jun Kondo, Tomoki Fujino
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Patent number: 8277262Abstract: The invention relates to a PCB connector (1), comprising a housing (2) and a plurality of contact elements (3), every contact element (3) having a contact for connection to wires and a contact for connection to a printed circuit board. housing (2) is configured as one piece, the contact elements (3) being captively snap-locked in the housing (2).Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: ADC GmbHInventor: Ralf-Dieter Busse
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Patent number: 8226446Abstract: A terminal connector for a regulator and a method for connecting an external terminal to the terminal connector are provided, whereby the regulator is configured to control an output of a generator provided to a motorcycle. The terminal connector is configured to connect the regulator and external terminals using bolts and nuts, and includes a plurality of terminal units. Each terminal unit is individually connected to an external terminal, and is configured in a width direction of the terminal connector. Each terminal unit is configured as a support base for screw-tightening, to which one of the external terminals is connected by screwing, and includes an identification mark. At least two of the terminal units have different widths.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Kondo, Kuniaki Arakawa, Hajime Soda
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Patent number: 8221169Abstract: A cable management fanning module includes an elongated base extending in a linear direction defining a longitudinal axis, and having a first end and an opposite second end. A plurality of cable retainers extend from the base, wherein each cable retainer includes a finger extending from the base to a distal end. The first and second ends of the base define an interlocking arrangement having reciprocal shapes, wherein the fanning module is mateable with additional fanning modules on one or both of the first and second ends having a reciprocal shape so as to form a fanning strip.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventor: Foad Abdulakdir Mohamed Ahmed
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Patent number: 8216004Abstract: A cable management system is provided including a rack for holding telecommunications equipment, and a ribcage cable support member along a vertical side of the rack. The ribcage cable support member includes a plurality of forwardly and rearwardly extending ribs. The ribs each include cable retention tabs. A plurality of spools are provided for cable storage on the ribcage cable support member. Holes through the ribcage cable support member allow access between the front and rear portions. An additional rack may be positioned on an opposite side of the ribcage cable support member to the first rack, and two columns of ribs are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Michael Jay Follingstad, Eric Lovaasen, Jane Livingston, Al Feaster
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Patent number: 8162700Abstract: A connection block mounting frame and method of use are disclosed. In one example, a connection block mounting frame includes a block mounting interface on a front end of the connection block mounting frame, the block mounting interface including a plurality of block mounting locations each configured to receive a connection block. The connection block mounting frame includes a mounting surface on a back side of the connection block mounting frame and including a plurality of mounting locations and a plurality of cable routing openings. The connection block mounting frame further includes a second surface on a back side of the connection block mounting frame offset from the mounting surface and forming a cable routing path along the back side and external to the connection block mounting frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventor: Cyle D. Petersen
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Publication number: 20120080939Abstract: A power terminal block includes a base made of an insulator, a plurality of power terminals electrically insulated from each other and disposed on the base, and a plurality of terminal bases, each terminal base including a base connecting part made of a conductor and electrically coupled to the power terminals, and a first conductor connecting part made of a conductor, the first conductor connecting part being physically and electrically coupled to the base connecting part, the base connecting part and the first conductor connecting part being provided at different heights, wherein adjoining terminal bases, electrically coupled to power terminals supplied with currents with different electrical potentials, are coupled with the first conductor connecting parts of adjoining terminal bases disposed in different directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Keishi SHIMOWAKE, Yoshinori HOSHINO
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Patent number: 8100729Abstract: A cable connector includes a connecting head, a wiring assembly and a cable. The cable is assembled with the wiring assembly, and then the wiring assembly is assembled with the connecting head, thereby forming a cable connector. The wiring assembly has a rear-half portion and a front-half portion that are connected to each other. The distal end of the rear-half portion is recessed to form a plurality of wiring ports. The interior of each wiring port is provided with a plurality of cable troughs. The cable troughs extend toward the front-half portion to form a plurality of wiring slots on the front-half portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Jess-Link Products Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Hsu Chen, Chun-Hua Chen
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Patent number: 8066535Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes a mounting rack and an electronic device. The mounting rack includes a frame. An interface is defined in the frame. The frame includes a securing member. An electronic device is inserted in the mounting rack from front to back. The electronic device includes a back wall. The back wall is adjacent to the frame and defines a port for receiving a cable. The cable is secured to the securing member and inserted into the interface of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2010Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yi-Liang Hsiao, Hsueh-Chin Lu
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Patent number: 7999183Abstract: A vertical cable manager includes a base, an interconnected double-spine assembly topped by a top frame, and a pair of doors. The double-spine assembly is supported by the base. Each door is removably coupled at each lower corner to the base and at each upper corner to the top frame, thus permitting each door to be opened or hinged along either of its lateral sides or removed entirely. The double-spine assembly may support selectively repositionable mounting members, which may in turn support a large cable spool, a selectively repositionable shelf-mounted handle spool assembly, and various other cable management accessories.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.Inventors: Jose Arturo Garza, Daniel Alaniz, D. Brian Donowho, James I. Lawrence, Joshua James Young, Wayne Arnold Zahlit, Hillman Lee Bailey, Lawrence Randolph Gravell
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Patent number: 7973242Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a vertical cable manager for routing cables or wires. The vertical cable manager includes a vertical trough with sets of fingers. The fingers include arrow-shaped ends, which allow installation and/or removal of cables and wires, while retaining the cables and wires in cable rings. In some embodiments, a door attached to the vertical cable manager can be removable from one or both sides of the trough. In some embodiments, the vertical cable manager can include removable spools that can be attached to the trough in various positions and configurations.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Hoffman Enclosures, Inc.Inventors: Trent Jones, Jeremy Fink, Marcus Adrian Koukkari, Brian Lynn Mordick
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Publication number: 20110111646Abstract: A cable management fanning module includes an elongated base extending in a linear direction defining a longitudinal axis, and having a first end and an opposite second end. A plurality of cable retainers extend from the base, wherein each cable retainer includes a finger extending from the base to a distal end. The first and second ends of the base define an interlocking arrangement having reciprocal shapes, wherein the fanning module is mateable with additional fanning modules on one or both of the first and second ends having a reciprocal shape so as to form a fanning strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: ADC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.Inventor: FOAD ABDULAKDIR MOHAMED AHMED
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Patent number: 7939763Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a horizontal cable manager. A horizontal base can include a first molded section and an identical second molded section adapted to be coupled together. The horizontal cable manager can include a plurality of fingers extending from each one of the first molded section and the second molded section. The fingers can include a shaft and an arrow-shaped end. The arrow-shaped end can include a first triangular member and a second triangular member each coupled to opposite sides of the shaft at a first distance away from a distal end of the shaft. The horizontal cable manager can include hinge supports with a cover removably coupled to the hinge supports. The horizontal base can include an attachment hole, a first extension, and a second wing extension for temporary attachment to an electronic equipment rack.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2008Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Hoffman Enclosures, Inc.Inventors: Trent Jones, Jeremy Fink, Marcus Adrian Koukkari, Brian Lynn Mordick
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Patent number: 7915542Abstract: A cable support bracket includes a backplate with a number of structures extending transversely therefrom and defining a plurality of cable restraints and slots. The cable restraints have a series of projections formed on the transversely extending structures. Each cable restraint has a series of projections aligned so as to create matching barbs that secure electrical cables within the restraints. At least one transversely-extending structure acts as a spacer to ensure that electrical safety requirements regarding the distance between cables and internal walls are met when the bracket is installed.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Inventor: Robert C. Forbis
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Patent number: 7893356Abstract: A vertical cable manager includes a base, an interconnected double-spine assembly topped by a top frame, and a pair of doors. The double-spine assembly is supported by the base. Each door is removably coupled at each lower corner to the base and at each upper corner to the top frame, thus permitting each door to be opened or hinged along either of its lateral sides or removed entirely. The double-spine assembly may support selectively repositionable mounting members, which may in turn support a large cable spool, a selectively repositionable shelf-mounted handle spool assembly, and various other cable management accessories.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2010Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Chatsworth Products, Inc.Inventors: Jose Arturo Garza, Daniel Alaniz, D. Brian Donowho, James I. Lawrence, Joshua James Young, Wayne Arnold Zahlit
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Patent number: 7875799Abstract: A cover plate for an angled patch panel is described. The angled patch panel has a frame which has mounting members on opposite longitudinal ends of the frame, where the mounting members are for mounting the angled patch panel to a plurality of locations on a network rack. The frame has a longitudinal profile at least a portion of which is angled with respect to a line extending between the longitudinal ends of the frame to define an area bounded by the longitudinal profile and the line extending between the longitudinal ends of the frame. The cover plate for the angled patch panel includes a plate having a shape substantially the same as this area. Further, the cover plate includes a plurality of plate mounting members to mount the plate at the plurality of locations on the network rack.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Robert E. Fransen, Mark J. Donnell, Paul M. Herbst, Jeremy S. Parrish
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Patent number: 7828567Abstract: A carrier useful in the field of telecommunications to which a plurality of telecommunications modules are mountable. The carrier includes at least one spacer adapted to create a wire or cable slack by spacing the wires or cables from that part of the carrier on which the spacer is provided. An assembly comprising at least one carrier and at least one telecommunications module is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2007Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Pierre Bonvallat, Guy Metral, Gaetan Perrier
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Patent number: 7766701Abstract: A cable management system is provided including a rack for holding telecommunications equipment, and a ribcage cable support member along a vertical side of the rack. The ribcage cable support member includes a plurality of forwardly and rearwardly extending ribs. The ribs each include cable retention tabs. A plurality of spools are provided for cable storage on the ribcage cable support member. Holes through the ribcage cable support member allow access between the front and rear portions. An additional rack may be positioned on an opposite side of the ribcage cable support member to the first rack, and two columns of ribs are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Michael Jay Follingstad, Eric Lovaasen, Jane Livingston, Al Feaster
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Patent number: 7695323Abstract: Cable managers of the present invention include a panel, at least two adjacent spaced-apart projections, which define an opening therebetween, and a tab connected to at least one of the projections. The tab assists in cable routing and retention. In one embodiment, the tab extends to a distance at least midway between a top surface of the one projection and the bottom surface of the other projection. In another embodiment, a distance between a top surface of the tab on one projection and the bottom surface of another adjacent projection is between about 0.10 inches and about 0.30 inches. In yet another embodiment, a cable manager comprises separable portions, and at least one spacer member which is adapted to be attached to each of separable first and second portions. The spacer member increases the width of the manager to provide additional space to run cable within the manager.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Michael J. McGrath, Max W. Hibner, Thomas Chung Yin Wong
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Patent number: 7637773Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an angled patch panel with a variable angle, the patch panel may be mounted on a communication rack and may have first and second patch panel elements connected by a hinge to enable angular movement of the patch panel elements relative to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: RIT Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Pinchas Shifris, Yaakov Haggay, Uriya Mantver, Ilan Kelmer
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Publication number: 20090280696Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is described which comprises an insulative housing comprised of at least one terminal receiving cavity, having a terminal opening and a mating terminal opening. A primary latch is positioned in the cavity provides a space between the primary latch and a base wall and an insulative contact extends laterally of the primary latch and is profiled to deflect the primary latch towards the base wall upon deflection of the insulative contact. An electrical terminal is positioned in the at least one cavity; and a terminal position assurance member is insertable below the primary latch and within the space. When the electrical terminal is fully positioned, the space is sufficient to accept the terminal position assurance member, and when the terminal is not fully inserted, the insulative contact is deflected by the electrical terminal, and the space is insufficient to accept the electrical terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2008Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventor: Michael Dale Brown
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Publication number: 20090130920Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting strip (1) for telecommunications and mid-range communications technology, comprising a housing (2) and at least two contact elements (11), wherein the contact element (11) comprises a first contact (12) for the connection of wires or cables and a second contact (13) for contacting a printed circuit board, the second contact (13) taking the form of a press-fit pin contact or a tuning-fork contact, and in which the first contact (12) is aligned towards the upper side (3) of the housing (2), and the second contact (13) is aligned towards the underside (4) of the housing (2), the first contacts (12) being arranged laterally offset from the longitudinal axis (L) of the housing (2), and on the opposite side at least one fin (8) being arranged so that between the first contacts (12) and the fin (8) a trench (9) is formed, the contact element (11) being constructed with a bracket (15) positioned above the second contact (13), aligned towards the upper side (3) of the housing (2),Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2007Publication date: May 21, 2009Applicant: ADC GmbHInventors: Manfred Muller, Harald Klein, Heiko Neumetzler
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Publication number: 20090093169Abstract: Cable managers of the present invention include a panel, at least two adjacent spaced-apart projections, which define an opening therebetween, and a tab connected to at least one of the projections. The tab assists in cable routing and retention. In one embodiment, the tab extends to a distance at least midway between a top surface of the one projection and the bottom surface of the other projection. In another embodiment, a distance between a top surface of the tab on one projection and the bottom surface of another adjacent projection is between about 0.10 inches and about 0.30 inches. In yet another embodiment, a cable manager comprises separable portions, and at least one spacer member which is adapted to be attached to each of separable first and second portions. The spacer member increases the width of the manager to provide additional space to run cable within the manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Michael J. McGrath, Thomas Wong, Max W. Hibner
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Publication number: 20090047844Abstract: An electrical connector (100) according to the present invention includes an insulative housing (1) and a pair of conductive terminals (2). The housing includes a wire connecting portion (11) for connecting a wire and a mating port (10) with a receiving space (101) at the center thereof adapted for receiving a complementary connector, and the wire connecting portion defines a plurality of surfaces. The pair of conductive terminals include mating portions (22) received in the receiving space and soldering portions (21) surface mounted on different surfaces of the wire connecting portion of the housing so that the soldering portion of the terminals is separated by the wire connecting portion of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Chang-Yin Wang, Wei-Ya Cheng
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Patent number: 7488218Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a retainer adapted to restrain a plurality of electrical conductors. The electrical conductors can be operably connectable to one or more circuit breakers. The retainer can be adapted to define a plurality of through-holes. Each of the plurality of through-holes can be adapted to nondestructively receive therethrough a conductor from the plurality of electrical conductors.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Scott Dixon, Roland Joseph Montalbo
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Publication number: 20090029602Abstract: An electrical connector suitable for use in an adapter. The connector includes conductive elements that can be routed in three dimensions to facilitate interconnections between connectors used to form an adapter. Simplified construction is achieved through use of connector wafers, each of which route signals in a plane such that when the wafers are organized side-by-side in a connector, signals may be routed through multiple parallel planes. Some of the wafers may include holes through which conductive elements from other wafers may pass, to that signal may be routed in a third dimension, perpendicular to the parallel planes. The adapter may be mounted on a printed circuit board or other substrate with active components. Signals may pass through the adapter in one of the parallel planes or may be routed for conditioning in the active components.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Inventors: Thomas S. Cohen, David Manter
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Publication number: 20090004926Abstract: The invention provides a connector in which, while miniaturization and thinning are attained at a level equivalent to the conventional art, it is possible to prevent a phenomenon that molten solder drips from a wire connecting portion to form a solder bridge between adjacent contacts, from occurring, and a cable can be soldered to the wire connecting portion with excellent workability and high strength. In the connector of the invention, each of terminal portions (25) of plural contacts (20) which are juxtaposed in the pitch direction has a wire connecting portion (26, 27, 28) to which a lead wire (71, 72, 73, 74) drawn out from a cable (70) is to be soldered. The wire connecting portion is expansively opened along the connector thickness direction which is perpendicular to: an insertion/extraction direction of the connector with respect to a counter connector; and the pitch direction perpendicular to the insertion/extraction direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Applicant: Hosiden CorporationInventor: Toshiharu Miyoshi
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Publication number: 20080293268Abstract: The distribution connecting module for telecommunications and data systems technology, comprises a housing inside of which input and output contacts for connecting lines and wires are placed, said contacts being accessible from the exterior. The housing is provided with a cavity inside of which at least one printed circuit board is placed. The input and output contacts are situated on the opposing faces of the housing. The input contacts are provided in the form of at least one connector strip with insulation displacement contacts. The input and output contacts can be detachably connected to the printed circuit board. The connector strip supporting the input contacts is detachably connected to the housing via a front part. The insulation displacement contacts are connected to the printed circuit board via fork contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: ADC GmbHInventors: Ralf-Dieter Busse, Joachim Stark, Harald Klein, Antony Nijhuis
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Patent number: 7445521Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a retainer adapted to restrain a plurality of electrical conductors. The electrical conductors can be operably connectable to one or more circuit breakers. The retainer can be adapted to define a plurality of through-holes. Each of the plurality of through-holes can be adapted to nondestructively receive therethrough a conductor from the plurality of electrical conductors.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Scott Dixon, Roland Joseph Montalbo
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Publication number: 20080268719Abstract: A telecommunications connector including a connector housing; a plurality of connector contacts in the connector housing; a substrate having first plated through holes for receiving termination ends of the connector contacts, the first plated through holes arranged in an area on the substrate; a plurality of termination contacts, the plurality of termination contacts positioned in second plated through holes in the substrate; the second plated through holes intersecting the area on the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: The Siemon CompanyInventors: John A. Siemon, Brian Celella, James Frey, David Medeiros, Maxwell K. Yip, Joseph Favale, Randy J. Below, Chris Acuna, Marc Pardee
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Patent number: 7442094Abstract: A telecommunications module includes a housing, a plurality of contacts, which are exposed to allow the connection of wires herewith, and a connecting device for connecting at least some of the contacts with other contacts of the telecommunications module, wherein the connecting device is partially accommodated in the housing an d partially extends outside the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2004Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Friedrich Wilhelm Denter, Hans-Dieter Otto, Christine B. Bund, Cornel Schaub, Bernd Lindenbeck
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Patent number: 7407389Abstract: The distribution connecting module for telecommunications and data systems technology, comprises a housing inside of which input and output contacts for connecting lines and wires are placed, said contacts being accessible from the exterior. The housing is provided with a cavity inside of which at least one printed circuit board is placed. The input and output contacts are situated on the opposing faces of the housing. The input contacts are provided in the form of at least one connector strip with insulation displacement contacts. The input and output contacts can be detachably connected to the printed circuit board. The connector strip supporting the input contacts is detachably connected to the housing via a front part. The insulation displacement contacts are connected to the printed circuit board via fork contacts.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: ADC GmbHInventors: Ralf-Dieter Busse, Joachim Stark, Harald Klein, Antony Nijhuis
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Patent number: 7396999Abstract: A device for receiving and organizing twisted pairs of conductors from a cable having a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors includes a block with upper and lower surfaces, first and second opposing end walls that define a longitudinal axis, and first and second opposing side walls. The block further comprises at least one aperture extending from the upper surface toward the lower surface, the aperture being sized and configured to receive each of the plurality of twisted pairs of a cable. Each of the side walls includes at least one open-ended slot opening downwardly, each of the slots being sized and configured to receive a respective twisted pair of conductors. In this configuration, the device can facilitate termination of twisted pair conductors onto IDCs or the like and can provide a termination with less dimensional variation (and, in turn, less variation in electrical performance) than prior termination devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: CommScope Solutions Properties, LLCInventors: Timothy C. Miller, Troy J. Long, Danny L. Satterthwaite
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Patent number: 7393243Abstract: A patch panel mountable to a network rack is provided. The patch panel may include a frame with first and second mounting portions that are each located at opposite longitudinal ends of the frame. The frame may also include a first panel section adjacent to the first mounting portion and a second panel section adjacent to the second mounting portion. The first and second panel sections may be angled relative to each other. Additionally, the first panel section may include a first row of connector openings aligned along a first pitch line, with the first pitch line preferably being angled relative to the longitudinal length of the first panel section. Similarly, the second panel section may include a second row of connector openings aligned along a second pitch line, with the second pitch line preferably being angled relative to the longitudinal length of the second panel section.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2007Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventor: Jack E. Caveney
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Patent number: 7381100Abstract: A cable management system is provided including a rack for holding telecommunications equipment, and a ribcage cable support member along a vertical side of the rack. The ribcage cable support member includes a plurality of forwardly and rearwardly extending ribs. The ribs each include cable retention tabs. A plurality of spools are provided for cable storage on the ribcage cable support member. Holes through the ribcage cable support member allow access between the front and rear portions. An additional rack may be positioned on an opposite side of the ribcage cable support member to the first rack, and two columns of ribs are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.Inventors: Michael Jay Follingstad, Eric Lovaasen, Jane Livingston, Al Feaster
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Patent number: 7371130Abstract: A coaxial cable covering apparatus includes a plate that has a first side, a second side and a peripheral edge. The plate has at least one mounting opening extending therethrough. A flange is attached to and is coextensive with the peripheral edge. The flange is angled with respect to a plane of the plate. The flange has an outer edge has a notch therein. The notch extends toward the peripheral edge of the plate. The first side of the plate has a trough therein aligned with the notch. The trough is elongated and a coaxial cable is positionable in the notch and extended along a portion of the trough. At least one fastener may be extending through the at least one mounting opening to secure the plate to a dwelling wall. The plate is positioned over an outlet to hold the coaxial cable flush with the dwelling wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Inventors: Michael F. Grant, Steve Mills
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Patent number: 7303446Abstract: A frame assembly for mounting an insulation displacement connector block includes a base frame and a modular subframe attached to the base frame. The subframe is capable of being attached to the base frame in a first position or a second position, which are generally perpendicular to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: 3M Innovative Proprties CompanyInventors: Douglas P. Hills, Jerome A. Pratt