Telecommunications cable management component housing
AssigneeCommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
InventorsBart Mattie Claessens, Roger Joseph Alaerts
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Abstract
Telecommunications cable management component housing assemblies that can be assembled without adhesive, and associated methods for assembling cable management component housings. The assembly includes a body and a lid that can be assembled together in a permanent or semi-permanent configuration. The body and the lid include complementary locking features. The lid is resiliently flexible to enable the lid to be assembled to the body. The body defines a cable management component housing volume that houses one or more cable management components, such as splitters, wave division multiplexors, and splices.
Claims27
An assembly for a cable management component housing, comprising:
- a body extending longitudinally from an open first end to an opposing open second end and including inner surfaces that define a cable management component housing volume between the open first and second ends, the body including a bottom wall, two parallel side walls extending from the bottom wall, and an open top extending between the two side walls between the first and second opposing ends, the bottom wall having an outer surface including a mounting feature protruding downward from the outer surface and away from the cable management component housing volume for mounting the body to a tray or a panel of a telecommunications closure, the two side walls defining a first set of locking features;
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- a cover, the cover defining a second set of locking features that are complementary to the first set of locking features and adapted to engage and interlock with the first set of locking features to cover the open top of the body.
An assembly for a cable management component housing, comprising:
- a body extending longitudinally from an open first end to an opposing open second end and including inner surfaces that define a cable management component housing volume between the open first and second ends, the body including a bottom wall, two parallel side walls extending from the bottom wall, and an open top extending between the two side walls between the first and second opposing ends, the bottom wall having an outer surface including a mounting feature for mounting the body to a tray or a panel of a telecommunications closure, the two side walls defining a first set of locking features;
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- a cover, the cover defining a second set of locking features that are complementary to the first set of locking features and adapted to engage and interlock with the first set of locking features to cover the open top of the body,
- wherein the first set of locking features includes two pairs of opposing notches and each of the notches includes a surface that is angled acutely relative to a longitudinal axis of the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.