US 2026/0169247 A1Published application

Telecommunications cable guide

AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC

InventorsJonathan R. KAML, Kenneth Allen SKLUZACEK

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Abstract

A cable guide includes a base for positioning the cable guide on a base surface of an internal area of a telecommunications chassis. The base is generally planar. The cable guide includes a plurality of arms and at least one arm of the plurality of arms is flexible. The cable guide includes a plurality of cable channels that are defined by the plurality of arms. The plurality of cable channels each receive a plurality of furcation tubes. Each of the plurality of cable channels is configured to allow furcation tubes to move within each of the plurality of cable channels. Each cable channel has an open position and a closed position. When in the open position, furcation tubes can be loaded and unloaded into and out of the cable channel. When in the closed position, furcation tubes are restricted from being removed from the cable channel.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A telecommunications system comprising:

a cable including a plurality of optical fibers;
a chassis having a first internal area and a second internal area, the second internal area having a base surface;
a cable guide on the base surface of the second internal area of the chassis, the cable guide defining at least one cable channel, the cable being positioned, and movable, within the at least one cable channel, wherein the at least one cable channel has an open position, where access to the at least one cable channel is allowed, and a closed position, where access to the at least one cable channel is restricted;
and
a telecommunications component positioned at the first internal area of the chassis, the telecommunications component being attached to the cable, the telecommunications component being movably mounted to the chassis between a first position and a second position, wherein, when the telecommunications component is moved between the first and second positions, the cable moves within the at least one cable channel of the cable guide.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 19/375,877Filed 31 Oct 2025
Priority: 17 Apr 2019
Published: 18 Jun 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G02B 6/4452
Systems or boxes with surplus lengths: distribution frames
G02B 6/44526
Distribution frames: panels or rackmounts covering a whole width of the frame or rack
G02B 6/44528
Systems or boxes with surplus lengths: patch-cords; Connector arrangements in the system or in the box
G02B 6/4455
Cassettes: characterised by the way of extraction or insertion of the cassette in the distribution frame, e.g. pivoting, sliding, rotating or gliding

Family

Application62/835,303Us provisional application · filed 17 Apr 2019
Application62/852,518Us provisional application · filed 24 May 2019
Application17/604,134Continuation
Application19/375,877Continuation
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US 2026/0169247 A1This patent

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