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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1997
William D Regester, Bothell, WA (US);
Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., Little Neck, NY (US);
Abstract
A versatile multimedia connection unit or box for managing fiber optic cables and distributing individual fiber optic strands to separate connectors. In a preferred embodiment, the connection unit has a rectilinear housing defining a cavity with a distribution cell and a patch cell, a plurality of open-ended cable ports at various locations in the housing along its outer edges to pass fiber optic cable into the cavity, and a plurality of stackable cable-storage members adjustably attached to the housing to store extra fiber optic cable in the distribution cell. The connection unit also preferably has a removable front door hingedly attached to the front of the housing to provide access to the patch cell, a removable top door hingedly attached to the top of the housing to provide access to the distribution cell, and a removable rear door hingedly attached to the rear of the housing to provide additional access to the distribution cell. A plurality of connector cards with connectors and blank cards without connector are releasably mounted to a bulkhead bracket fixed to the housing in the cavity at a location that divides the cavity into the distribution cell and the patch cell. Each connector on a connector card has a distribution end in the distribution cell to which an individual fiber optic strand may be coupled and a patch end in the patch cell to which an internal line in a building may be coupled to optically couple the strand and line together.