Telecommunications connection cabinet

US7457503B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · US

Inventors

• James J. Solheid · Lakeville, US
• Daniel Ray Mertesdorf · Tehachapi, US
• Matthew Holmberg · Le Center, US
• Trevor D. Smith · Eden Prairie, US
• Joel B. Douglas · Hutchinson, US
• Kathleen M. Barnes · Golden Valley, US
• Marlon E. Holmquist · Gibbon, US
• Thomas C. Tinucci · Eden Prairie, US
• Cindy S. Walters · Prior Lake, US
• James W. Conroy · Prior Lake, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 27, 2007
• Grant date: Nov 25, 2008
• Expiry date: Mar 29, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49826
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A telecommunications cabinet comprising a top, a floor, a pair of opposing sides, a front wall and a rear wall defining an interior, the front including an access door for accessing the interior. Within the interior are mounted a cable management structure, an adapter panel with an adapter configured to optical connector two optical fiber cables terminated with fiber optic connectors, and a fiber optic connector holder mounted in openings of the adapter panel. The connector holder has an opening configured to receive a fiber optic connector with a dust cap, the opening accessible from a front side of the adapter panel. A fiber optic connector including a ferrule with a polished end face holding an end of an optical fiber with a dust cap placed about the ferrule and polished end face is inserted within the opening of a fiber optic connector holder. And a fiber optic connector is inserted within the rear side of one of the adapters.