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US 9,804,353 B2Granted
Telecommunications connection cabinet
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsJames J. Solheid, Daniel Ray Mertesdorf, Matthew Holmberg, Trevor D. Smith, Joel B. Douglas, Kathleen M. Barnes, Marlon E. Holmquist, Thomas Caesar Tinucci, Cindy S. Walters, James W. Conroy
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Abstract
A telecommunications cabinet includes a cabinet housing; a fiber optic splitter; a plurality of spools disposed on a cable management surface; a panel oriented at a fixed angle relative to the access opening so that the panel extends laterally and rearwardly between the access opening and the cable management surface; and a plurality of adapters disposed on the panel.
Claims18
A telecommunications cabinet comprising:
- a cabinet housing defining an interior, the cabinet housing having an access opening and a door for opening and closing the access opening;
- a vertical stack of adapter modules positioned within the interior of the cabinet housing, each of the adapter modules including a plurality of fiber optic adapters at a front of the adapter module, the fiber optic adapters including front ports that are mateable with fiber optic connectors;
- a connector storage structure positioned within the interior of the cabinet housing, the connector storage structure including a vertical stack of connector holder modules, each of the connector holder modules including connector holders for holding and storing the fiber optic connectors, the connector holders being configured differently than the fiber optic adapters;
- fiber optic cords having ends terminated by the fiber optic connectors, wherein each of the fiber optic connectors is selectively inserted into one of the front ports of the fiber optic adapters or stored at the connector storage structure;
- at least one optical splitter positioned within the interior of the cabinet;
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- at least one bend radius protector positioned within the interior of the cabinet housing for routing at least a portion of at least one of the fiber optic cords.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.