Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Erik Laursen

Jennifer M Waite

Mark Edward Dearing

Keith B Kosanovich

Mark A Guymon

John M Redfield

George C Rondeau, Jr

Patrick Stephen McNutt

Edward R Burns

Patrick S Mcnutt

A cable management guide couples with a component rack to support and guide cables. The cable management guide has offset brackets attachable to posts of the component rack to unobtrusively position cable stays into the interior of the component rack for enhanced positioning of the cables. Each of the cable stays includes a support member to retain one or more cables and a guard member that keeps the cables on the support member within the cable stay. For each cable stay, the guard member is offset from and overlaps with the support member to provide an entrance gap between the support member and the guard member for cables to be slipped into and out of the cable stay.

Cable management guide

Equipment rack panel

An equipment rack panel system using one or more rack extension panels with optional raceway to interconnect equipment cables to service cables through connectors within the rack extension panel. The rack extension panel is either fastened to or integral with one of the posts of the equipment rack or otherwise adjacent to the equipment rack and extends away from the equipment rack so as not to occupy space within the equipment rack normally reserved for equipment.

Equipment rack panel system and method

An enhanced patch panel indicia system includes a cover to receive a backing as the primary indicia receiver and to receive labels as auxiliary indicia receivers. The indicia system further includes an enhanced patch panel with a front face. The cover can include clip members to allow the cover to be snap-fitted onto the front face of the patch panel with the cover in juxtaposition with the front face, and in some implementations, the backing positioned therebetween.

Enhanced patch panel indicia system

A rack mounted component door system according to the present invention is used in conjunction with a conventional equipment rack to secure components in the rack and to provide access to features of the components positioned away from the front side of the rack. The component door system includes two hinge assemblies that can be attached directly to two opposing vertical members of the front side of a conventional rack. The component door system also includes a panel that can be of conventional configuration or tailored for the component door system. The panel is attached to the two hinge assemblies to extend between the two front side vertical members of the rack.

Rack mounted component door system and method

A cable slack management system is used in conjunction with a conventional component rack to secure cables of excess length to minimize disturbance, interference, and general clutter that the excess cable length would otherwise cause. In one implementation, the cable slack management system includes a slack management panel that is attached to two opposing vertical members of a rack to extend horizontally between the members as a cross-member of the rack. If more than one cable slack management system is installed in a rack, typically the slack management panels are placed between component panels in some alternating fashion. In an alternative implementation, the slack management panels are vertically oriented, and are typically mounted adjacent to a rack. The cable slack management system also includes one or more cable spools for each slack management panel. The cable spools allow cable to be wrapped around them thereby securing the cable.

Cable slack manager system and method

An angled patch panel having left and right end panel sections and left and right central panel sections, each section having at least one connector mounting aperture. The left central panel section and left end panel section being attached together at an angle other than 180 degrees, and the right central panel section and right end panel section being attached together at an angle other than 180 degrees. The patch panel includes left and right mounting plates, and left and right end reawardly extending extension plates. The left end panel section extends from the left end extension plate inwardly and forwardly and terminates at a first forward position facing toward the left side, and the right end panel section extends from the right end extension plate inwardly and forwardly and terminating at a second forward position facing toward the right side, and the left central panel section extends from the left end panel section inwardly and forwardly and terminates at a third forward position facing toward the left side, and the right central panel section extends from the right end panel section inwardly and forwardly and terminates at a fourth forward position facing toward the right side. The third forward position being forward of the first forward position, and the fourth forward position being forward of the second forward position.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Erik Laursen