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US 2003/0150950 A1Published application
Cable storage box
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorRyan Yeh
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Abstract
A cable storage box for a telephone or other communications extension cord comprises a cover, a reel and a housing. The housing has an opening with a leading edge formed thereon. The leading edge has a taper surface with a retention portion formed thereon for engaging with corresponding jack when the jack tends to be pulled out.
Claims8
A cable storage box comprising:
- a housing defining an opening and a plurality of retention posts therein;
- a reel received in the housing and coiling around a cable;
- a cover attached to the housing;
- wherein the opening has a leading edge, the leading edge having a taper surface with a retention portion formed thereon for engaging with a corresponding jack when the jack tends to be pulled out and a friction spring plate engaging with the retention posts to be constantly in frictional engagement with the reel.
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A cable storage box comprising:
- a housing defining a first opening around an edge portion and a second opening around a center portion of a planar face of said housing;
- a real rotatably disposed in the housing and accessible from an exterior via said second opening in a direction perpendicular to said planar face;
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- a core including a cable wire and a connector, said connector configured to be retained in said first opening, said cable wire coiling said real;
- wherein said real interferes with a friction spring plate formed in the housing during rotation.
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A cable storage box comprising:
- a housing defining a first opening around an edge portion and a second opening around a center portion of a planar face of said housing;
- a real rotatably disposed in the housing and accessible from an exterior via said second opening in a direction perpendicular to said planar face;
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- a core including a cable wire and a connector, said connector configured to be retained in said first opening, said cable wire coiling said real;
- wherein a retention portion of the housing engages a latch of said connector to retain the connector substantially completely in the first opening, and said latch is operatively/accessibly along said direction depressed in another direction, perpendicular to said direction, to be disengaged from said retention portion so that the core is able to be pulled out from the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.