Optical waveguides – Accessories
Patent
1997-01-17
1998-04-07
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Optical waveguides
Accessories
385135, G02B 600
Patent
active
057374759
ABSTRACT:
A versatile multimedia connection unit or box for managing fiber optic cables and distributing individual fiber optic strands to separate connectors. In a preferred embodiment, the connection unit has a rectilinear housing defining a cavity with a distribution cell and a patch cell, a plurality of open-ended cable ports at various locations in the housing along its outer edges to pass fiber optic cable into the cavity, and a plurality of stackable cable-storage members adjustably attached to the housing to store extra fiber optic cable in the distribution cell. The connection unit also preferably has a removable front door hingedly attached to the front of the housing to provide access to the patch cell, a removable top door hingedly attached to the top of the housing to provide access to the distribution cell, and a removable rear door hingedly attached to the rear of the housing to provide additional access to the distribution cell. A plurality of connector cards with connectors and blank cards without connector are releasably mounted to a bulkhead bracket fixed to the housing in the cavity at a location that divides the cavity into the distribution cell and the patch cell. Each connector on a connector card has a distribution end in the distribution cell to which an individual fiber optic strand may be coupled and a patch end in the patch cell to which an internal line in a building may be coupled to optically couple the strand and line together.
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Bovernick Rodney B.
Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc.
Sanghavi Hemang
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