Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100111481 | System for securing fiber optic devices in management trays - An optical fiber management tray system includes a tray or drawer including a base panel having a number of slots formed in the panel, and a number of retention clips for mounting fiber optic devices of different shapes and dimensions on the panel. Two or more of the clips each has a main body with a different retention portion for enveloping part of a corresponding fiber optic device, and a pair of latch fingers that project from the clip body in the direction of the base panel when the device is enveloped in the retention portion clip and placed at a desired location on the panel. The latch fingers have free ends for engaging edges of the slots in the base panel when the corresponding device is enveloped in the retention clip, thus securing the device at the desired location on the panel. | 05-06-2010 |
20110192631 | Vertical cable protection and management trough - A cable trough and system for routing and managing cables associated with equipment that has first cable ports at a first side of the equipment and second cable ports at a second side of the equipment. The trough includes an elongated trough body having a ported side wall constructed to mount at either one of the first and the second sides of the equipment. The ported side wall of the body has one or more first trough cable ports each located and dimensioned to align or interface with a different one of the first equipment cable ports when the ported side wall is mounted at the first side of the equipment, and one or more second trough cable ports each located and dimensioned to align with a different one of the second equipment cable ports when the ported side wall is mounted at the second side of the equipment. | 08-11-2011 |
20120138214 | OPTICAL FIBER INSTALLATION AT CUSTOMER PREMISES - An optical fiber is permanently routed easily, quickly, and unobtrusively at a customer premises using an inventive hand tool, without staples or other fasteners. The fiber has an adhesive outer coating that is activated as the fiber is applied by the tool on an exposed surface such as a wall, ceiling, molding, groove, or corner at the premises. When the activated coating hardens, the fiber is bonded to the surface on which it was applied, and the hardened coating also provides physical protection for the fiber. In the disclosed embodiment, the coated fiber is supplied on a spool that mounts on the tool, and the coating is activated by guiding the fiber as it unwinds from the spool through a chamber containing an activating substance. The fiber with the activated coating is then guided to an applicator wheel on the tool which applies the fiber to the surface. | 06-07-2012 |
20120294580 | OPTICAL FIBER OR CABLE STORAGE MODULE FOR INSTALLATION AT CUSTOMER PREMISES - An optical fiber or cable storage module includes a back wall and a number of resilient mounting fingers extending from the back wall, and a fiber supply spool having an axial bore formed to receive the mounting fingers and to engage the fingers when the spool is urged toward the back wall so that the spool is restrained from axial movement. The spool includes a hub, and a first winding section for containing a length of fiber sufficient to route between a service terminal outside a user premises and a location near a user terminal inside the premises. The mounting fingers have corresponding catches at the ends of the fingers, and the inner circumference of the bore in the supply spool has an annular groove formed to seat the catches for restraining the spool from axial movement. | 11-22-2012 |
20130057128 | Cabinet cable management - A cable management cabinet is improved by separately managing the routing of data copper cables and optical fiber cables within the cabinet. This is accomplished by providing separate cable retaining boxes (CRBs) for data copper cables and optical fiber cables respectively. The CRBs are provided with front openings to facilitate installation and routing of optical fiber cables and data copper cables. The openings may be provided with edge guards to ease ingress/egress of cables through the openings. | 03-07-2013 |
20130225378 | Leg Stretching Machine For Simultaneously Stretching All Stride Muscles And Method Of Using - A muscle-stretching machine designed to provide the user with an easy method of functional and dynamic stretching and also provide the user with flexibility feedback information as to the performance of the stretch, with regards to the included angle between the two legs. A user of the muscle stretching machine can set the roller pad along any point along the back of the user's leg and set the angle the roller pad makes with the floor, so that the angle exceeds the users stride length. The user then lies on their back on the cushioned surface; places one leg on the roller pad and the other leg is allowed to hang down. If the roller pad is set at an angle that exceeds the users stride length, then the leg not on the pad will not contact the floor. As a result, when the free leg drops all the muscles in the user's stride are stretched. | 08-29-2013 |
20140307250 | LIGHT COVER OR HOOD FOR LIVE OPTICAL FIBER IDENTIFIER TOOL - A light hood for a fiber identifier tool that includes a head portion having interior photo detectors, a slot for receiving an optical fiber to be tested, and a clamp mechanism for urging the fiber to bend in the vicinity of the photo detectors when the mechanism is operated. The hood has a generally T-shaped body that defines a lower hood portion arranged to engage the clamp mechanism and operate the mechanism when the lower hood portion is pulled downward by a user. An upper hood portion of the body is configured so that when the lower hood portion is engaged with the clamp mechanism and pulled downward, the upper hood portion descends to cover the head portion of the tool including the slot. Outside light is then blocked from entering the slot and reaching the photo detectors whenever a fiber is tested by the tool, thus preventing false indications. | 10-16-2014 |
20150147061 | COMBINATION CUSTOMER SPLICE POINT MODULE AND OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL MOUNT - The specification described a multifunction CSP (MCSP), and a MCSP/ONT assembly that is adapted for mounting inside the customer premises. In the MCSP/ONT assembly the MCSP subunit and the ONT subunit are stacked and attached directly together. The MCSP/ONT assembly combines the functions of the standard CSP box and the ONT box, thus eliminating the need for the building cable. In addition the MCSP subunit is adapted to integrate more than one ONT in the MCSP/ONT assembly. The MCSP subunit comprises a back box, a splice tray, and a cover. | 05-28-2015 |