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US 2019/0319443 A1Published application
Cable sealing assembly for an enclosure
AssigneeCommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
InventorBart Mattie CLAESSENS
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Abstract
Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to an IP 65 rated enclosure. Cable sealing components in accordance with the present disclosure provide labyrinthine sealing channels around cables of different diameters entering IP 65 rated and other enclosures. In some aspects, the cable sealing components of the present disclosure include a pair of elastomeric sealing blocks having sets of ribs and grooves that intermesh with each other to form sealing cable channels.
Claims17
A cable sealing component for an enclosure comprising:
- a pair of elastomeric sealing blocks disposed within the enclosure and operable between a sealing configuration and an open configuration;
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- a first pair of rib sets, a first rib set of the first pair of rib sets being integral with a first of the pair of elastomeric sealing blocks, a second rib set of the first pair of rib sets being integral with a second of the pair of elastomeric sealing blocks, each of the rib sets of the first pair of rib sets comprising a plurality of flexible ribs having flexed and non-flexed positions, and a plurality of grooves, the ribs of the first rib set of the first pair of rib sets occupying the grooves of the second rib set of the first pair of rib sets and the ribs of the second rib set of the first pair of rib sets occupying the grooves of the first rib set of the first pair of rib sets when the elastomeric sealing blocks are in the sealing configuration and the ribs are in the non-flexed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.