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US 12,111,507 B2Granted
Adapter panel with lateral sliding adapter arrays
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsMark Smrha, Hutch Coburn, Chad Sjodin
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Abstract
An adapter panel arrangement including a chassis and a panel of adapters. The adapters defining open rearward cable connections and open forward cable connections of the panel arrangement. The adapters being arranged in arrays that slide independently of other adapter arrays to provide access to the open rearward and open forward cable connections.
Claims19
A fiber optic apparatus, comprising:
- a chassis having a first side and a second side;
- and
- fiber optic connection equipment mounted within the chassis, the fiber optic connection equipment configured to support at least eighty-eight (88) fiber optic connection locations in a one rack unit height, each fiber optic connection location defining an LC connector port, wherein the LC connector ports are arranged in at least one horizontal row extending between the first and second sides of the chassis, and wherein the connector ports are not uniformly spaced along the at least one horizontal row, and wherein the chassis comprises first and second flanges at opposite sides of the chassis for mounting the chassis to a rack.
A fiber optic apparatus, comprising:
- a chassis having a first side and a second side;
- and
- fiber optic connection equipment mounted within the chassis, the fiber optic connection equipment configured to support at least eighty-eight (88) fiber optic connection locations in a one rack unit height, each fiber optic connection location defining an LC connector port, wherein a plurality of LC adapters define the fiber optic connection locations, the plurality of LC adapters arranged in arrays, each array including a plurality of horizontally aligned LC adapters, wherein a gap separates at least two of the arrays, wherein a forwardly extending cable routing member is horizontally aligned with the gap, the forwardly extending cable routing member terminating in a vertical portion positioned in a vertical plane that is forward of a plane occupied by the plurality of LC adapters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.