Grounding configuration for telecommununications equipment
AssigneeAvaya Technology Corp.
InventorBassel H. Daoud
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Abstract
A panel for mounting telecommunications equipment has an insulating body and a grounding strip to provide ground connection to the telecommunications equipment. The grounding strip has a panel portion for mounting the grounding strip to the insulating body and a mounting portion bending away from the insulating body and having one or more mounting holes for mounting the panel to external structure to enable the panel to be mounted to the external structure without requiring spacers to prevent overstress to the insulating material. In one implementation, the panel is a protector panel for receiving five-pin plug-in protectors that provide electrical isolation between multi-wire cabling and telephones and other types of telecommunications equipment.
Claims8
A panel for mounting telecommunications equipment, comprising:
- (a) an insulating body comprising insulating material having a front face configured with one or more sets of holes to receive one or more plug-in protectors, a back face approximately parallel to the front face and a plurality of side faces extending between the front and back faces;
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- (b) a conducting grounding strip configured to the insulating body to provide a grounding connection for the panel, wherein the grounding strip has (i) a panel portion mounting the grounding strip to one of the side faces of the insulating body and (ii) a mounting portion bending away from the insulating body approximately parallel to the front and back faces of the insulating body and having one or more mounting holes for mounting the panel to external structure to enable the panel to be securely mounted to the external structure without applying pressure directly to the insulating body and without requiring spacers to prevent overstress to the insulating material.
A protector panel for receiving five-pin plug-in protectors that provide electrical isolation for telecommunications equipment, the protector panel comprising:
- (a) an insulating body comprising insulating material having a front face configured with one or more sets of holes to receive a plurality of five-pin plug-in protectors, a back face approximately parallel to the front face and a plurality of side faces extending between the front and back faces;
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- b) two conducting grounding strip configured to a pair of opposing side faces of the insulating body to provide a grounding connection for the protector panel, wherein each grounding strip has (i) a panel portion mounting the grounding strip to one of the opposing side faces of the insulating body and (ii) a mounting portion bending away from the insulating body approximately parallel to the front and back faces of the insulating body and having one or more mounting holes for mounting the panel to external structure to enable the panel to be securely mounted to the external structure without applying pressure directly to the insulating body and without requiring spacers to prevent overstress to the insulating material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.