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US 11,695,234 B2Granted
Cable organizer for a pluggable module
AssigneeTE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
InventorsJeffrey Stewart Simpson, Craig Warren Hornung
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Abstract
A pluggable module includes a housing and cables arranged as a cable bundle extending from a module cavity of the housing. Each cable includes first and second conductors and an insulator surrounding the conductors. Each cable is obround shaped having generally flat first and second ends and semi-circular first and second sides between the first and second ends. The pluggable module includes a cable organizer coupled to the cable bundle to position the cables relative to each other. The cable organizer has cable channels receiving and holding the cables such that at least a first subset of the cables are oriented with the first and second ends non-parallel to the first and second ends of a second subset of the cables.
Claims20
A pluggable module comprising:
- a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and sidewalls between the top wall and the bottom wall, the housing forming a module cavity, the housing having a mating end configured to be mated with a communication connector of a receptacle assembly, the housing having a cable end opposite the mating end;
- a module circuit board received in the module cavity, the module circuit board having a card edge at a front of the module circuit board configured to be plugged into a card slot of the communication connector, the module circuit board having board contacts proximate to the card edge, the module circuit board having cable contacts electrically connected to the board contacts;
- cables arranged as a cable bundle extending from the module cavity at the cable end, each cable including a first conductor, a second conductor and at least one insulator surrounding the first and second conductors, the first and second conductors being terminated to corresponding cable contacts of the module circuit board, each cable being obround shaped having a first end and a second end opposite the first end and parallel to the first end and having a first side and a second side between the first and second ends being semi-circular;
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- a cable organizer coupled to the cable bundle to position a plurality of the cables relative to each other, the cable organizer having cable channels receiving corresponding cables and holding the cables in at least a first subset of the cables and a second subset of the cables, the cables of the first subset being oriented parallel to each other in the corresponding cable channels through the cable organizer, the cables of the second subset being oriented parallel to each other in the corresponding cable channels through the cable organizer, the first subset of the cables are oriented with the first and second ends non parallel to the first and second ends of the second subset of the cables.
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A pluggable module comprising:
- a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and sidewalls between the top wall and the bottom wall, the housing forming a module cavity, the housing having a mating end configured to be mated with a communication connector of a receptacle assembly, the housing having a cable end opposite the mating end;
- a module circuit board received in the module cavity, the module circuit board having a card edge at a front of the module circuit board configured to be plugged into a card slot of the communication connector, the module circuit board having board contacts proximate to the card edge, the module circuit board having cable contacts electrically connected to the board contacts;
- cables arranged as a cable bundle extending from the module cavity at the cable end, each cable including a first conductor, a second conductor and at least one insulator surrounding the first and second conductors, the first and second conductors being terminated to corresponding cable contacts of the module circuit board, each cable being obround shaped having a first end and a second end opposite the first end and parallel to the first end and having a first side and a second side between the first and second ends being semi-circular;
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- a cable organizer coupled to the cable bundle to position a plurality of the cables relative to each other, the cable organizer having cable channels receiving corresponding cables and holding the cables such that at least a first subset of the cables are oriented with the first and second ends non parallel to the first and second ends of a second subset of the cables;
- wherein the cable organizer is ring shaped having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface surrounding an opening, the inner surface having corresponding cable channels and the outer surface having corresponding cable channels such that cables are routed inside of the inner surface and outside of the outer surface.
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A pluggable module comprising:
- a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and sidewalls between the top wall and the bottom wall, the housing forming a module cavity, the housing having a mating end configured to be mated with a communication connector of a receptacle assembly, the housing having a cable end opposite the mating end;
- a module circuit board received in the module cavity, the module circuit board having a card edge at a front of the module circuit board configured to be plugged into a card slot of the communication connector, the module circuit board having board contacts proximate to the card edge, the module circuit board having cable contacts electrically connected to the board contacts;
- cables arranged as a cable bundle extending from the module cavity at the cable end, each cable including a first conductor, a second conductor and at least one insulator surrounding the first and second conductors, the first and second conductors being terminated to corresponding cable contacts of the module circuit board, each cable being obround shaped having a first end and a second end opposite the first end and parallel to the first end and having a first side and a second side between the first and second ends being semi-circular;
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- a cable organizer coupled to the cable bundle to position a plurality of the cables relative to each other, the cable organizer including a top, a bottom, a first side, and a second side extending between a front and a rear of the cable organizer, the cable organizer having cable channels receiving corresponding cables, each cable channel extending along a straight path through the cable organizer between the front and the rear, the cable channels holding the cables in the cable organizer such that the first and second ends of the cables are oriented at approximately 45° relative to the top and the bottom of the cable organizer.
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A cable organizer for organizing cables in a cable bundle, each cable having a first conductor, a second conductor and at least one insulator surrounding the first and second conductors, each cable being obround shaped having a first end and a second end opposite the first end and parallel to the first end and having a first side and a second side between the first and second ends being semi-circular, the cable organizer comprising:
- a main body including a top, a bottom, a first side, and a second side, the main body extending between a front and a rear;
- cable channels extending through the main body between the front and the rear, the cable channels are configured to receive corresponding cables, each cable channel extending along a straight path through the cable organizer between the front and the rear;
- wherein the cable channels hold the cables in the cable organizer such that the first and second ends of the cables are oriented at approximately 45° relative to the top and the bottom of the cable organizer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.