Commscope Technologies LLC

Tyco Electronics Corporation

Robert A Roach

Johan Geens

Philippe Coenegracht

Julian Sean Mullaney

Pieter Doultremont

Eric Emmanuel Alston

Roy Keller Thompson

Robert Nguyen

The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications enclosures that can be customizable to include a hinge. That is, a separate hinge may be utilized as an add-on feature for telecommunications enclosures. The hinge can be attached to at least two different sides of an enclosure or may not be utilized at all. Such a configuration allows for flexibility of a variety of designs for a telecommunications enclosure. The hinge can be mountable to interfaces of first and second housing pieces of an enclosure. The hinge can have rotational features and/or translational features for pivoting first and second housing pieces of an enclosure between first and second positions.

Telecommunications enclosure with a separate mountable hinge

Cable arrangements include a length of springy cable looped in aarrangement with an intermediate cross-over section between respective first and second looped sections of the cable. Thearrangement enables withdrawal of the cable from the arrangement with no more than a single twist of the cable to limit accumulated net linear twist of the cable while linearly extending the cable. The first and second looped sections may be positioned overlapping each other to provide a substantially toroidal shaped cable arrangement. An optical device may be provided on one or both of the ends of the length of cable. The springy cable may be a fiber optic cable, such as flat drop cable. Cable products, enclosures and methods of forming a cable arrangement are also provided.

Coiled cable products and methods of forming the same

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Garner, NC, United States of America

Robert A Roach