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US 12,745,021 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 rack-mountable chassis having first and second mounting flanges at opposite sides of the chassis, wherein the chassis is capable of supporting fiber optic connection equipment comprising first and second rows of fiber optic connection locations, each connection location being a front port, each row comprising forty-eight (48) front ports;
- a first frame member having a first plurality of front ports from the first row;
- a second frame member having a second plurality of front ports from the first row, the second frame member being adjacent to the first frame member and aligned in the same horizontal plane with the first frame member;
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- a slidable member supporting the first and second frame members, wherein the slidable member defines a first bottom access opening sized and positioned to facilitate finger access to the first plurality of front ports.
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A fiber optic apparatus, comprising:
- a rack-mountable chassis having first and second mounting flanges at opposite sides of the chassis;
- a guide member disposed within the chassis, the guide member including at least one engaging member along the guide member, the engaging member being one of a projection or a detent;
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- a first support member that is slidable relative to the chassis;
- wherein the chassis is configured to receive fiber optic connection equipment comprising a row of at least forty-eight (48) fiber optic connection locations, each of the at least forty-eight (48) connection locations comprising a port configured to receive an LC connector;
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- wherein the first support member is configured to receive at least a first plurality of ports from the row of connection locations, wherein the first support member engages the guide member during sliding movement of the support member, and wherein the first support member includes a first complementary member that is engageable with the at least one engaging member of the guide member to retain the first support member in a first position, wherein the first support member defines a bottom access opening sized and positioned to facilitate finger access to at least some of the first plurality of ports.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.