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US 4,995,688 AGranted
Optical fiber distribution frame
AssigneeADC Telecommunications, Inc.
InventorsMark A. Anton, Jory A. Steinman, Paul A. Suek, Wayne A. Johnson
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Abstract
An optical fiber distribution frame is disclosed which includes a plurality of modular cabinets. The plurality of cabinets includes a connector cabinet having a front panel with sleeve adaptors for mounting a plurality of connector sleeves on said panel at an angle to said panel.
Claims11
An optical fiber distribution frame comprising:
- a frame member having walls defining a frame interior, said frame member having a plurality of cabinet attachment locations;
- a plurality of cabinets sized to be received within said interior;
- said plurality of cabinets including at least one connector cabinet having a panel accessible through both a rear and a forward face of said connector cabinet, said connector cabinet including a plurality of adapters each having means for attachment of said adapters to said panel, each of said adapters including means for receiving and mounting a pair of optical fibers to said adaptor with a first fibers extending through said rear face and with a second fiber extending through said forward face and with said fibers connected in optical alignment;
- said plurality of cabinets also including at least one splice cabinet having splicing means for splicing together optical fibers;
- said plurality of cabinets further including at least one storage cabinet having storage means for temporarily storing excess lengths of optical fibers;
- each of said connector cabinets, splice cabinet and storage cabinet sized for said cabinets to be interchangeably inserted within said frame at any of said attachment locations;
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- releasable attachment means for releasably attaching said cabinets to said frame at said attachment locations.
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An optical fiber distribution frame comprising:
- a frame member having walls defining a frame interior, said frame member having a plurality of cabinet attachment locations;
- a plurality of cabinets sized to be received within said interior;
- said plurality of cabinets including at least one splice cabinet having means for splicing together optical fibers;
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- said plurality of cabinets also including at least one storage cabinet having means for temporarily storing excess lengths of optical fibers;
- said plurality of cabinets including at least one connector cabinet having a panel accessible through both a rear and a forward face of said connector cabinet, a plurality of optical fibers connections including at least a first and second design of connectors of differing known dimensions and selected to couple a pair of optical fibers, said connector cabinet including a plurality of adapters each having attachment means for attachment of said adapters to said panel, said plurality of adapters including at least a first and second design selected to receive and retain said first and second connector design, respectively;
- said attachment means attaching said adapters to said panel with a first set of fibers connected to first ends of said connectors and extending from a said face and with a second set of fibers connected to second ends of said connectors and extending from said forward face;
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- attachment means for releasably attaching said plurality of cabinets to said frame member at said attachment locations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.