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US 11,619,792 B2Granted
Fiber optic module and chassis
AssigneeCommScope Telecommunications (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
InventorYuanzhe Zhang
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Abstract
A telecommunications assembly includes a chassis and a plurality of modules removably mounted within the chassis. The modules include one or more fiber optic signal input locations. The modules include optical equipment for splitting the input signals into customer output signals.
Claims14
A telecommunications assembly comprising:
- A. a chassis defining a plurality of mounting locations for slidably receiving telecommunications modules;
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- B. a telecommunications module inserted into one of the mounting locations of the chassis, the telecommunications module comprising:
- i. a housing having a main housing portion and a removable cover cooperatively defining an interior, the main housing portion defining a first sidewall, a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall, the cover defining a second sidewall of the housing when mounted on the main housing portion to close off the interior, the main housing portion including a signal output location defined on the front wall;
- ii. an optical component located within the interior, the optical component configured to receive a fiber optic input signal coming in from a signal input location of the housing and output a fiber optic output signal going toward the signal output location defined on the front wall of the main housing portion;
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- iii. a cable exit structure defining a top wall and a bottom wall, the cable exit structure defining the signal output location on the front wall, the cable exit structure defining an integrally formed unitary structure extending along at least a majority of a height defined between the top wall to the bottom wall of the main housing portion, wherein the telecommunications module further comprises a flexible latch for mounting to the chassis with a snap-fit interlock, wherein at least one of the top wall and the bottom wall of the cable exit structure is positioned adjacent the flexible latch without another intermediate structure being positioned between a flexible end of the latch and the cable exit structure and provides spacing for allowing flexing of the latch for unlocking the telecommunications module from the chassis.
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A telecommunications module comprising:
- a housing having a main housing portion and a removable cover cooperatively defining an interior, the main housing portion defining a first sidewall, a front wall, a rear wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall, the cover defining a second sidewall of the housing when mounted on the main housing portion to close off the interior, the main housing portion including a signal output location defined on the front wall;
- an optical component located within the interior, the optical component configured to receive a fiber optic input signal coming in from a signal input location of the housing and output a fiber optic output signal going toward the signal output location defined on the front wall of the main housing portion;
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- a cable exit structure defining a top wall and a bottom wall, the cable exit structure defining the signal output location on the front wall, the cable exit structure defining an integrally formed unitary structure extending along at least a majority of a height defined between the top wall to the bottom wall of the main housing portion, wherein the telecommunications module further comprises a flexible latch for mounting to a telecommunications fixture with a snap-fit interlock, wherein at least one of the top wall and the bottom wall of the cable exit structure is positioned adjacent the flexible latch without another intermediate structure being positioned between a flexible end of the latch and the cable exit structure and provides spacing for allowing flexing of the latch for unlocking the telecommunications module from the telecommunications fixture.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.