Modular connector anti-snag retrofit
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDavid Paul Kuiken, Mark Daniel Rogalski
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Abstract
A device to retrofit an existing modular connector having a flexible projecting connector tab that renders a cable to which the modular connector is connected susceptible to snagging is provided. The device is attached onto the connector and has a hollow interior, a bottom, two lateral sides, and a top. The top has a projecting tab. The projecting tab is set at an angle to allow the device tab to preclude objects from entering an opening formed by the connector tab and the connector and thus prevents the connector from snagging.
Claims1
A device for retrofitting an existing modular connector having a connector tab susceptible to sngagging on objects comprising:
- a hollow interior;
- a bottom side, the bottom side having a mechanism for attaching and detaching the device to the modular connector, the mechanism being two protrusions, the two protrusions being mated to a cavity in the modular connector thereby locking the device onto the modular connector;
- two lateral sides;
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- the device being color-coded allowing a cable to which the modular connector is connected to be easily identified from a plurality of other cables;
- a top side, the top side having i) a device tab, the device tab being a flexible tab capable of being fully depressed for depressing the connector tab when fully depressed, for preventing the connector tab from snagging, and ii) a recess for allowing the connector tab to be fully depressed when the modular connector is being unlatched from a mating connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.