Optical fiber cable management apparatus

US6427936B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Lucien Noel · The Bronx, US
• Kan Liu · San Diego, US
• John A. Holmes · Waterloo, CA
• Lawrence Duffy · New York, US
• Yevgeniy Lvovskiy · New York, US
• Willie Braun · Franklin Lakes, US
• Albert Pedoeem · West Orange, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 19, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 26, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G02B6/44524
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A fiber cable storage and management apparatus. The apparatus includes front and rear sections interconnected by a hinge. The front section is configured to hold a length of fiber cable, and both the front and rear sections are slidingly mountable to an electronic chassis. The front section of the fiber cable storage and management apparatus may be alternately retracted out of and inserted into the housing of the electronic chassis. When the front section is retracted out of the electronic chassis housing, the hinge can pivot between a first position in which the front and rear sections of the apparatus are substantially coplanar and a second position in which the front section is rotated below the plane of the rear section. By sliding the front section of the apparatus out of the electronic chassis housing and then rotating the front section downward, easy access is provided to fiber cable stored on the front section.