Fiber optic module and system including rear connectors
AssigneeComm Scope Technologies LLC
InventorsSteven C. Zimmel, Ponharith Nhep, Trevor D. Smith
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Abstract
A telecommunications assembly including a housing and a plurality of modules mounted within the housing. The modules includes a rear face in which is mounted at least one fiber optic connector. Within an interior of the housing are positioned at least one fiber optic adapters. Inserting the module through a front opening of the housing at a mounting location positions the connector of the module for insertion into and mating with the adapter of the housing. The adapters within the interior of the housing are mounted to a removable holder. A method of mounting a telecommunications module within a chassis.
Claims17
A fiber optic telecommunications assembly comprising:
- (a) a chassis defining at least one mounting location;
- (b) at least one fiber optic adapter corresponding to the at least one mounting location, the fiber optic adapter including a front end and a rear end, each end of the at least one fiber optic adapter configured to receive a mating fiber optic connector, the front end positioned to receive a fiber optic connector of a telecommunications module that is to be inserted into the chassis and mounted at the at least one mounting location;
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- (c) a telecommunications module mounted to the chassis at the at least one mounting location, the telecommunications module including:
- a module housing;
- a fiber optic connector for inputting a fiber optic signal into the telecommunications module, the fiber optic connector being directly mounted to the module housing without the use of an intermediate fiber optic adapter, the fiber optic connector having an interface end that is accessible from outside the module housing, the fiber optic connector including a ferrule;
- an optical component positioned within the module housing;
- an input fiber routed from the fiber optic connector to the optical component;
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- an output fiber routed from the optical component to a fiber output location of the module housing;
- (d) wherein, when the telecommunications module is mounted to the chassis at the at least one mounting location, the ferrule of the fiber optic connector of the telecommunications module engages the at least one fiber optic adapter of the mounting location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.