Cable retention system for power distribution unit
AssigneeChatsworth Products, Inc.
InventorsJames Utz, William Krietzman, Joshua Young, Anderson Hungria
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Abstract
A cable retention system for a power distribution unit includes a tether and a tether mount. The tether has an elongate portion and an attachment portion, and the attachment portion includes a channel therein. The tether mount has a base at a proximal end and a head at a distal end. The base is adapted to attach the proximal end of the tether mount to the power distribution unit. The tether is adapted to be secured to the tether mount by snap-fitting the head of the tether mount into the channel of the attachment portion.
Claims13
A cable retention system for a power distribution unit, the cable retention system comprising:
- a tether mount having a base at a proximal end, a boss at a distal end and a shaft that connects the boss to the base;
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- an elongate tether removably mounted on the boss of the tether mount, the elongate tether having an attachment portion disposed at an end thereof;
- wherein the attachment portion of the elongate tether includes a channel shaped to receive the boss of the tether mount and at least a portion of the shaft;
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- wherein at least a portion of a mouth of the channel is narrower than an interior of the channel such that at least one of the boss or the portion of the shaft is received within the channel via snap-fit.
A cable retention system comprising:
- a power distribution unit;
- a plurality of tether mounts, each having a base at a proximal end, a boss at a distal end and a shaft that connects the boss to the base, the base of each of the plurality of tether mounts being secured to the power distribution unit;
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- at least one elongate tether removably mounted on the power distribution unit via a selected one of the plurality of tether mounts;
- wherein the at least one elongate tether includes an attachment portion disposed at an end thereof, the attachment portion including a channel shaped to receive, via snap-fit, the boss of the selected tether mount and at least a portion of the shaft thereof;
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- wherein the at least one elongate tether is interchangeably attachable, via snap-fit, at any of the other of the plurality of tether mounts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.