Grounding plate and telecommunications module including a grounding plate and telecommunications rack mounting system including a module

Abstract

A grounding plate (10) includes the following features: said grounding plate (10) includes in its rear portion at least one contact section (18) integrally formed with said grounding plate (10) for contacting a telecommunications rack-mount (50), said grounding plate (10) is configured essentially flat, including said contact section (18) and with the exception of comparatively short angled items (24), if any, which serve for positioning said grounding plate (10) in or on a telecommunications module (30) relative to a direction perpendicular to the sheet-metal plane of said grounding plate (10), said grounding plate (10) includes in its front portion several contact fingers (12), said grounding plate (10) can be mounted on a telecommunications module such that each contact finger (12) is in contact with a section of a contact of the module, and said grounding plate (10) can be mounted together with the module on a telecommunications rack-mount such that said contact section (18) is in contact with a mainly troughed telecommunications rack-mount, said telecommunications module is provided with one such grounding plate (10) and said telecommunications rack-mounting system is provided with at least one such module.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.