Lucent Technologies Inc.

Nancy Susan Rush

Sebastian J Messina

David John Pongracz

Charles E Johnson

Savino Camporeale

Mark E Feiner

An apparatus holds a feeler gage. The apparatus includes a shaft having an end to which the feeler gage is attached. A fixture aligns the shaft with an opening into which the feeler gage is inserted. The opening may be a gap of a connector. A portion of the shaft is a measuring section having a plurality of markers. The markers are stripes, grooves, or lands on a portion of the shaft. The fixture comprises a channel, sleeve or bearing that guides the shaft onto the fixture. The fixture includes a ridge for insertion of the fixture onto a track. The fixture may have an alignment arm that engages a side surface of the connector. The fixture has a latch that attaches the fixture to the track. The latch of the fixture comprises two substantially parallel elongate members separated by a distance approximately equal to a width of the track. The feeler gage may be attached to the shaft by a clamp that allows any of a plurality of feeler gages to be detachably mounted, the plurality of feeler gages including gages having respectively different shapes and sizes. Alternatively, the assembly may include a plurality of shafts, each shaft attached to a respective feeler gage having a respectively different dimension, such that only one of the plurality of shafts is received by the track at any one time.

Feeler gage alignment tool

A grounding clamp includes mechanical features for electrically interconnecting two or more shielding layers of shielded cables, and/or for interconnecting the shielding layer of one or more shielded cables to an electrically grounded chassis. The grounding clamp includes two elongated brackets, each having a first end and a second end, and each being formed of an electrically conductive material. The two brackets include undulating surfaces, and are interconnected to each other at their first ends by a tab and slot arrangement. When the two brackets face each other the undulations on their undulating surfaces are offset relative to one another. The second ends of the brackets are connected by a threaded fastener arrangement, so that cables may be pinched between the undulating surfaces to establish electrical conductivity between shielding layers of the cables and the grounding clamp. One of the two brackets may also include fastening features allowing the grounding clamp to be physically and electrically connected to a grounded chassis.

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Nancy Susan Rush